Monopulse Beamforming Network for Target Angle Tracking

표적 입사각 추적을 위한 모노펄스 빔형성 네트워크

  • Moon Sung-Hoon (School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Han Dong-Seog (School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Cho Myeong-Je (Agency for Defense Development)
  • Published : 2004.01.01

Abstract

This paper proposes a monopulse beamforming network to estimate a target angle in interference conditions. The proposed system estimates the target direction of arrival (DOA) with two separate beamformings for azimuth and elevation with a planar may. The elevation is extracted from adaptive beamforming in the azimuth direction and the azimuth from adaptive beamforming in the elevation direction. Unlike conventional monopulse beamforming techniques using complex correction formulas or a cascaded architecture of an adaptive array and a mainlobe canceller, the proposed system is very efficient from the computational complexity. The advantage is from fact that the monopulse ratio of the proposed system does not depend on the adapted weights. Moreover, the proposed system can estimate the DOA of the target even for multiple mainlobe interferences since it does not need my kinds of mainlobe maintenance technique.

본 논문에서는 재밍 신호가 존재할 경우에 모노펄스 기법을 이용하여 표적신호의 입사각을 추정하기 위한 모노펄스 빔형성기를 제안한다. 제안한 모노펄스 빔형성기는 평면 어레이 안테나를 이용하여 방위각과 고도각으로 별도의 빔형성을 수행한다. 즉, 방위각 방향으로의 빔형성을 통하여 표적 고도각을 추정하고, 고도각 방향으로의 빔형성을 통하여 표적 방위각을 추정한다. 기존의 모노펄스 빔형성기에 비하여 적응된 가중치의 값에 상관없이 모노펄스 비를 얻으므로 구현이 간단하고 빔형성에 의한 편향이 발생하지 않는다 또한 주엽 제한조건을 사용하지 않으므로 다수의 주엽재밍이 존재할 경우에도 표적의 입사각을 정확하게 추정할 수 있다.

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