The disclosure provides a method for estimating a direction of arrival of an L-type coprime array based on coupled tensor decomposition. The method includes: constructing an L-type coprime array with separated sub-arrays and modeling a received signal; deriving a fourth-order covariance tensor of the received signal of the L-type coprime array; deriving a fourth-order virtual domain signal corresponding to an augmented virtual uniform cross array; dividing the virtual uniform cross array by translation; constructing a coupled virtual domain tensor by stacking a translation virtual domain signal; and obtaining a direction of arrival estimation result by coupled virtual domain tensor decomposition. The present invention makes full use of the spatial correlation property of the virtual domain tensor statistics of the constructed L-type coprime array with the separated sub-arrays, and realizes high-precision two-dimensional direction of arrival estimation by coupling the virtual domain tensor processing, which can be used for target positioning.

The present method and system relates to the determination of elevation angles for the case in which more than one target object is situated within a radar cell. Through the estimation according to the present invention of the elevation angles in multi-target scenarios, even in such cases both azimuth angles and elevation angles can be determined, and a reliable classification of the respective target objects can then take place. The present system also relates to a motor vehicle having a radar system that includes an azimuth and elevation angle estimation method and system.

A method, device, system and use for determining a distance, location and/or orientation including the at least relative determination of a position of at least one object using at least two active anchors. A first signal is emitted by a first of the two anchors and is received at the object and by a second of said two anchors. A phase measurement is performed at said second anchor and wherein a distance determination with respect to said first anchor is performed and/or the distance from said first anchor to said second anchor is known. A second, particularly electromagnetic, signal is emitted from said second anchor, and information on phase measurement and distance between said first and second anchors is made available to a computation unit and at least one phase measurement respectively of said first and second signal is performed at said object and made available to said computation unit.

A multi-radar system is configured such that radars A and B perform synchronization so that their transmission timings and frequency bands are substantially the same. For this reason, in a case where the radars A and B operate as bistatic radars, the radars A and B yield the same detection results from reflected waves from a place on a surface of a target T where the detection object regions of the radars A and B overlap. Therefore, the signal-to-noise ratio can be improved by synthesizing the target detection results obtained by the radars A and B operating as bistatic radars. This results in improved target detection performance.

The invention relates to a method for determining by a direction finder (DF) the direction to a Target, which comprises (a) providing an antenna at said DF, and an array of antennas at the Target; (b) providing a compass at each of said DF and said Target, for determining the azimuth of the DF Heading and of the Target Heading, respectively, with respect to the North; (c) providing at said DF a look-up table which describes n antenna patterns, one per Transmission Mode that may be used respectively at the Target; (d) sequentially performing x Transmission Modes from the Target, each time using another pair of antennas, and during each of said Transmission Modes intentionally, and in a controlled manner attenuating a reception signal at the DF until a loss of communication, and recording the respective attenuation levels; (e) based on said x recorded attenuations levels and said look up table, determining by the DF the direction from the Target to the DF; and (f) receiving at the DF the azimuth of the Target, and based on (i) said determined direction from the Target to the DF (ii) azimuth of the Target; and (iii) azimuth of the DF; calculating by the DF the direction from the DF to the Target.

Techniques are provided for steering vector generation. A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes converting time domain data received from an antenna array to channelized frequency domain data. The method also includes receiving a request from a signal detection system, the request including a timestamp and duration of a detected signal of interest (SOI) and an indication that the SOI is pulsed or continuous. The method further includes generating, for a pulsed SOI, steering vectors to steer the antenna array to the pulsed SOI based on a segment of the time domain data stored in a first memory and identified by the time stamp and duration; and generating, for a continuous SOI, steering vectors to steer the antenna array to the continuous SOI based on a segment of the channelized frequency domain data stored in a second memory and identified by the time stamp and duration.

An estimation device includes: M transmission antenna elements each transmitting a first transmission signal; N transmitter-receivers each including a reception antenna element and receiving, over a predetermined period, a first reception signal including a reflection signal that is the first transmission signal reflected by a first living body, using the reception antenna element; a memory storing training signals that are second reception signals obtained by causing the N transmitter-receivers to preliminarily receive second reception signals including reflection signals that are second transmission signals transmitted from the M transmission antenna elements to a second living body and reflected therefrom; a first vector calculator calculating a first vector for each training signal and each first reception signal by respective predetermined methods; and a circuit identifying the first living body or estimating an orientation of the first living body by a predetermined method, using correlation coefficients calculated from the first vectors.

An electromagnetic vector sensor (EMVS) system, having a plurality of EMVS devices consisting of a plurality of loop antenna elements spatiatally orthogonally integrated with and electrically isolated from a plurality of dipole antenna elements, mounted on a rotatably adjustable platform having a true north orientation, including active circuitry residing in antenna housings, and external executing software programs causing the active circuitry in cooperation with the EMVS device and receivers to determine angle of arrival and resolution of incoming wave vectors and polarization of incoming signals and to perform accurate high frequency geolocation signal processing; the programs which perform calibration and antenna element placement determination operations, also cause the system to collect data of known transmitted high frequency skywave signals, and estimate direction of arrival of unknown signals by detecting, resolving and measuring components of an electric field and a magnetic field at a single point.

A method, device, system and use for determining a distance, location and/or orientation including the at least relative determination of a position of at least one object using at least two active anchors. A first signal is emitted by a first of the two anchors and is received at the object and by a second of said two anchors. A phase measurement is performed at said second anchor and wherein a distance determination with respect to said first anchor is performed and/or the distance from said first anchor to said second anchor is known. A second, particularly electromagnetic, signal is emitted from said second anchor, and information on phase measurement and distance between said first and second anchors is made available to a computation unit and at least one phase measurement respectively of said first and second signal is performed at said object and made available to said computation unit.

An antenna array for reception of radio waves includes a first leg aligned in a first direction, a second leg aligned in a second direction, a third leg, and a communication module. The elements of the first linear subarray are spaced by a first distance. The elements of the second linear subarray are spaced by a second distance. The first distance is not equal to the second distance. The second direction is orthogonal to the first direction. The third linear subarray is aligned in a third direction that is collinear to the first direction or at an angle of 45 degrees between the first direction and the second direction. The communication module receives the radio waves from the first leg, the second leg and the third leg and determines a two dimensional direction of the source of the radio waves.