A novel polarization and DOA reliable auto-tracking antenna system

Xinran Ba; Chen Lin; Yincheng Zhong; Guanjiao Ren; Zhengpeng Wang; Yi Wang

doi:10.3390/electronics11040557

A novel polarization and DOA reliable auto-tracking antenna system

Xinran Ba, Chen Lin^*, Yincheng Zhong, Guanjiao Ren, Zhengpeng Wang, Yi Wang

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Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering

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In this study, a novel compact auto-tracking antenna system was developed to ensure the high reliability of practical applications. The system consisted of three antennas (two anchor antennas and a tag antenna), three ultra-wide band (UWB) chips, and one compact turntable. On the anchor side, two highly linearly polarized antennas with a short baseline were installed on an auto-control turntable. Two UWB chips were integrated with the two anchor antennas to extract the phase and amplitude information of the receiving signal. On the tag side, a wide-beam circularly polarized antenna with a UWB chip was installed to mitigate the effect of the tag’s pose on the phase measurement. Using a correlation matching algorithm based on the phase difference of arrival, high tracking reliability with a 90% success rate was achieved for all practical direction-of-arrivals and various axial rotating angles of the tag over the maximum radiation deflection angles between –90^◦ and 135^◦. The operation distance of a demo self-balanced two-wheeled vehicle was 20 m.

Original language	English
Article number	557
Journal	Electronics (Switzerland)
Volume	11
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040557
Publication status	Published - 12 Feb 2022

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Funding: This work was supported in part by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant CUC210F005, and in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NFSC) under Grant 62071436.

Keywords

Direction of arrival (DOA)
Localization
Phase difference of arrival (PDOA)
Radio frequency identification (RFID)
Ultra-wide band (UWB)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Systems Engineering
Signal Processing
Hardware and Architecture
Computer Networks and Communications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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