Tactical Body-Worn Direction Finding

Author

Siemsen, Patrick J.

Author_Institution

Southwest Res. Inst., San Antonio

fYear

2007

fDate

16-18 April 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper discusses the body worn antenna vest (BWAV) development efforts at Southwest Research Institute that will enable the reception and DF of both narrowband and wideband signals while allowing for hands-free operations. A BWAV was developed consisting of two nested antenna arrays covering the frequency range of 30-3000 MHz. Sensitivity and DF performance data was collected with the BWAV on both a mannequin and human subject. The overall RMS error on a mannequin was 6.6deg. The overall RMS Error on a live subject was 15.8 degrees. However, taken between 100-2000 MHz the overall RMS on a live subject was 8.8deg. This met the overall program goals of -22.5deg RMS error from approximately 100 MHz to 2000 MHz.

Keywords

antenna arrays; military communication; military equipment; radio direction-finding; RMS error; antenna arrays; body worn antenna vest; tactical body-worn direction finding; Antenna arrays; Batteries; Broadband antennas; Computer displays; Directive antennas; Humans; Portable computers; RF signals; Radio frequency; Shadow mapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System of Systems Engineering, 2007. SoSE '07. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1159-9

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1160-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SYSOSE.2007.4304287

Filename

4304287