Reactance-domain MUSIC for ESPAR antennas (experiment)

Author

Taillefer, Eddy ; Plapous, Cyril ; Cheng, Jun ; Iigusa, Kyoichi ; Ohira, Takashi

Author_Institution

ATR Adaptive Commun. Res. Labs., Kyoto, Japan

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

20-20 March 2003

Firstpage

98

Abstract

The electronically steerable parasitic array radiator (ESPAR) antenna offers low cost and low complexity relative to conventional array antennas. Because of the low complexity of the antenna there is only a single-port output for processing the signals impinging on the antenna elements. Since a reactance-domain MUSIC algorithm for ESPAR antennas has been proposed, the practical problem of estimating the direction of arrival of signals impinging toward an ESPAR antenna can be tackled. In this paper, two experimental methods of estimating the arrival signal angles are proposed. A method of solving the practical problem of calibrating the ESPAR antenna output signal model is also shown. The experimental results show that for one impinging signal the direction of arrival can be estimated with precision of 3 degrees.

Keywords

antenna arrays; antenna radiation patterns; array signal processing; beam steering; direction-of-arrival estimation; signal classification; ESPAR antenna; direction of arrival; electronically steerable parasitic array radiator; impinging signal; reactance domain MUSIC; signal angles; signal processing; single port output; Adaptive arrays; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Calibration; Costs; Direction of arrival estimation; Directive antennas; Laboratories; Multiple signal classification; Signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking, 2003. WCNC 2003. 2003 IEEE

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA, USA

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7700-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2003.1200327

Filename

1200327