Abstract:
: Objectives To overcome the problem of the working bandwidth’s limitation due to the phase ambiguity caused by the carrier frequency’s variation in conventional time-modulated direction finding, a single-channel direction finding method with nonuniform time modulation is proposed in this paper.
Methods By modulating the signals received by different antenna elements at the same time with nonuniform periods, the amplitude information can be separately mapped to the corresponding modulated frequency without aliasing. With the amplitude ratio independently extracted from the harmonics, the single-channel direction finding for the incident signal can be achieved by utilizing the lookup table method.
Results Based on numerical simulation results, the feasibility of the proposed method is verified. Meanwhile, a wideband non-uniform time modulation system available for 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz is constructed and the effectiveness is demonstrated, where the results show that the mean of direction finding absolute error is 0.21° and 0.18°, respectively.
Conclusions The proposed method can effectively improve the working bandwidth, which shows merits of simple structure, low cost, low signal processing complexity and wideband direction finding.
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