Integrated Reconfigurable Aperture, Digital Beam Forming, and Software GPS Receiver for UAV Navigation

Abstract

This report describes progress to date on establishing an integrated aperture, digital beam forming, and software receiver for UAV navigation in interference and jamming environment. Current progress has been made in the following areas: (1) implemented both carrier and code phase tracking loop for performance evaluation of a minimum power beam forming algorithm and null steering algorithm (2) Developed a criterion for interference bandwidth classification (3) implemented a multipath mitigation technique using joint space and polarization diversity.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 11, 2007
Accession Number
ADA477139

Entities

People

  • Y. T. Morton

Organizations

  • University of Miami

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Angle Of Arrival
  • Antenna Arrays
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Beam Forming
  • Environment
  • Experimental Data
  • False Alarms
  • Frequency
  • Global Navigation Satellite Systems
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Navigation
  • Signal Processing
  • Simulations
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Phased Array Antenna Design.
  • Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Technology.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.

Technology Areas

  • Space