Estimation of Pulse Parameters by Convolution

Author

Chan, Y.T. ; Lee, B.H. ; Inkol, R. ; Chan, F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Royal Mil. Coll. of Canada, Kingston, Ont.

fYear

2006

fDate

38838

Firstpage

17

Lastpage

20

Abstract

The time-of-arrival (TOA) estimation of pulse signals is widely used in radar, sonar and other sensor systems for geo-locating targets. This paper presents a new estimator for the TOA and width (W) of a pulse. Three auto-convolutions of a full and partial pulse determine the location of three convolution peaks. These peak locations are given by linear equations that contain as unknowns TOA and W. Solving these equations yields estimates of the pulse parameters. Simulation results show the performance of the estimator in noise and are compared with results obtained using an existing estimator

Keywords

convolution; time-of-arrival estimation; linear equations; pulse parameter estimation; time-of-arrival estimation; Amplitude estimation; Convolution; Equations; Military computing; Parameter estimation; Pulse measurements; Radar; Sonar; Space vector pulse width modulation; Time of arrival estimation; Time-of-arrival estimation; pulse width estimation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006. CCECE '06. Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ont.

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0038-4

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0038-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2006.277334

Filename

4055081