On the application of the higher order virtual array concept for small antenna arrays

Author

Engel, Ulrich ; Okum, Manfred

Author_Institution

Dept. Sensor Data & Inf. Fusion, Fraunhofer Inst. for Commun., Wachtberg, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

Aug. 29 2011-Sept. 2 2011

Firstpage

609

Lastpage

613

Abstract

Recently, the fourth order virtual array concept (q = 2) has been extended to an arbitrary even order m = 2q with q ≥ 2. The intention of this paper is to investigate the direction finding performance related to GPS based on 4th, 6th and 8th order processing methods compared to common 2nd order array processing methods. The presented results are based on real measurement data which has been recorded with our GPS antenna array (IKARUS) and our 8-channel recording system (ECHSE). We have used a 3-element antenna array because it is the smallest possible planar circular antenna. Additionally, the 3-element configuration exhibits useful properties regarding the virtual sensor positions.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; array signal processing; planar antenna arrays; 2nd order array processing methods; 3-element antenna array; 8-channel recording system; ECHSE; GPS antenna array; IKARUS; higher order virtual array concept; planar circular antenna array; small antenna arrays; virtual sensor positions; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Arrays; Direction-of-arrival estimation; Estimation; Global Positioning System; Satellites;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing Conference, 2011 19th European

Conference_Location

Barcelona

ISSN

2076-1465

Type

conf

Filename

7074030