Off-the-Shelf Low-Cost Target Tracking Architecture for Wireless Communications

Author

Hantao Xu ; Aliakbarian, Hadi ; Vandenbosch, Guy A. E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Volume

9

Issue

1

fYear

2015

fDate

Mar-15

Firstpage

13

Lastpage

21

Abstract

A compact architecture for real-time directions-of-arrival estimation, tracking, and beamforming is presented. It is based on the phased-array concept. Beamforming is digitally realized. The system concept and architecture are described in full detail. A proof of concept prototype, including a 1 × 2 planar array, an analog front end, and an field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based embedded system, is built and measured. The system is controlled by a GUI running on a mainstream laptop. The architecture is tailored to the use of low cost, off the shelf, and readily available components.

Keywords

array signal processing; direction-of-arrival estimation; embedded systems; field programmable gate arrays; graphical user interfaces; planar antenna arrays; target tracking; wireless channels; FPGA; GUI control; analog front end; compact architecture; digitally realized beamforming; embedded system; field programmable gate array; mainstream laptop; off-the-shelf low-cost target tracking; phased-array concept; planar array; real-time directions-of-arrival estimation; wireless communications; Antennas; Array signal processing; Arrays; Direction-of-arrival estimation; Estimation; Phase shifters; Target tracking; Digital multiple beamforming; directions-of-arrival (DoA) estimation; embedded system; hardware–software co-design; hardware???software co-design; phased array; tracking;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Systems Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1932-8184

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSYST.2013.2281131

Filename

6609062