Ultra wideband direction finding using digital channelization receiver architecture

In this paper, UWB direction finding technique using digital channelization receiver architecture Is proposed. The basic idea of this technique is to split the UWB array output into multiple frequency channels and then down-convert each channel into much lower frequency, hence allowing the low sampling rate ADC to be used. Estimation of the DoA of UWB source is achieved by forming a direction finding function using the spectral information from channelizer´s output. A thorough performance analysis from simulation results is presented to verify the proposed technique and to investigate the effect of the system´s parameters on the performance