Method for vector sensor design based on a spherical mode approach for 3D DoA estimation

Author

Lomine, J. ; Morlaas, Christophe ; Aubert, H.

Author_Institution

Rockwell Collins France, Blagnac, France

fYear

2013

fDate

8-12 April 2013

Firstpage

237

Lastpage

241

Abstract

A design process for the rapid determination of an efficient vector sensor configuration is presented. The vector sensor is applied to the 3D direction finding based on a spherical mode approach. A criterion of the estimation efficiency has been established allowing to predict the trend of the estimation errors of 3D direction of arrival in presence of perturbations caused by the coupling effects and the surrounding perturbations. The direction finding accuracy is evaluated with this method for several spatial distributions of 6 theoretical antenna elements and for a more realistic sensor with 3 antenna elements.

Keywords

antennas; couplings; direction-of-arrival estimation; sensors; 3D DOA estimation; 3D direction finding; coupling effects; estimation efficiency; estimation errors; perturbations; spatial distributions; spherical mode approach; theoretical antenna elements; vector sensor configuration; vector sensor design method; Accuracy; Antennas; Direction-of-arrival estimation; Estimation; Harmonic analysis; Vectors; 3D direction of arrival finding; efficiency criterion; spherical mode; vector sensor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2013 7th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Gothenburg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2187-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-88-907018-1-8

Type

conf

Filename

6546254