RADIO RECEIVERS FOR POSITION DETERMINATION SYSTEMS

• US 20200132854A1
• Filed: 04/23/2018
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/2017
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Kubina, Bernd, Strunck, Sebastian, Burghardt, Roland, Bodenheimer, Robert
• Application Number:
  US16/606,423
• Publication Number:
  US 20200132854A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/22 Multipath-related issues
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/35 Constructional details or hardware or software details of the signal processing chain
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/36 relating to the receiver frond end
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/428 using multipath or indirect path propagation signals in position determination
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 21/00 Systems for transmitting the position of an object with respect to a predetermined reference system, e.g. tele-autographic system
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/24 Combinations of antenna units polarised in different directions for transmitting or receiving circularly and elliptically polarised waves or waves linearly polarised in any direction circularly polarised patch antennas H01Q9/0428; circularly polarised horns H01Q13/0241; cross-polarised horns H01Q13/0258; polarisation converters H01Q15/242; cross-polarised rear feeds H01Q19/136; crossed polarisation dual antenna H01Q25/001
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/245 provided with means for varying the polarisation polarising devices H01Q15/24; tracking by comparing linear polarisation compounds G01S3/146; reducing depolarisation effects H04B7/00; polarisation diversity H04B7/10
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 25/001 Crossed polarisation dual antennas orthomode horns H01Q13/0258; cross-polarised rear feeds H01Q19/136; orthomode transducers H01P1/161

Abstract

A radio receiver for receiving radio signals from at least one position determination system, having a receiving apparatus, and an antenna arrangement. The antenna arrangement has at least one radio signal antenna for receiving radio signals and a first feed element and a second feed element. The first feed element and the second feed element have different polarization-dependent sensitivities. The antenna arrangement has a first radio signal line and a second radio signal line. The first radio signal line is designed to provide a radio signal received by the antenna arrangement as a first radio reception signal. The second radio signal line is designed to provide a further radio signal received by the antenna arrangement as a second radio reception signal. A signal processing apparatus designed to determine a position of the radio receiver on the basis of the first radio reception signal and the second radio reception signal.

Claims

1. A radio receiver for receiving radio signals from at least one position determination system, comprising:

a receiving apparatus, which has an antenna arrangement, wherein the antenna arrangement has at least one radio signal antenna for receiving radio signals and also a first feed element and a second feed element, wherein the first feed element and the second feed element have different polarization-dependent sensitivities, wherein the antenna arrangement has a first radio signal line and a second radio signal line, wherein the first radio signal line is designed to provide a radio signal received by the antenna arrangement as a first radio received signal, and wherein the second radio signal line is designed to provide a further radio signal received by the antenna arrangement as a second radio received signal; and

a signal processing apparatus designed to determine a position of the radio receiver on the basis of the first radio received signal and the second radio received signal.

2. The radio receiver as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first radio signal line and the second radio signal line are coupled to the at least one radio signal antenna.

3. The radio receiver as claimed in claim 1, wherein the antenna arrangement has a further radio signal antenna, wherein the first radio signal line is coupled to the first radio signal antenna, and wherein the second radio signal line is coupled to the second radio signal antenna.

4. The radio receiver as claimed in claim 1, wherein the signal processing apparatus is connected downstream of the receiving apparatus, and the signal processing apparatus is supplied with the first radio received signal via the first radio signal line and is supplied with the second radio received signal via the second radio signal line.

5. The radio receiver as claimed in claim 1, wherein the signal processing apparatus has antenna information about the polarization-dependent reception sensitivity of the first feed element and of the second feed element in order to use the first radio received signal and the second radio received signal to determine the polarization or polarization components of a radio signal received from the first feed element and the second feed element.

6. The radio receiver as claimed in claim 5, wherein the signal processing apparatus is designed to use the antenna information to process the first radio received signal and the second radio received signal in order to distinguish whether the received radio signals were reflected and/or scattered before reception by the receiving apparatus.

7. The radio receiver as claimed in claim 1, wherein the signal processing apparatus is designed to split the first radio received signal and the second radio received signal into a plurality of digital signals and to perform a propagation time calculation for the plurality of digital signals in order to obtain position information for the radio receiver.

8. The radio receiver as claimed in claim 7, wherein the signal processing apparatus is designed to generate final position information from the position information by a temporal shift of individual digital signals from the plurality of digital signals.

9. The radio receiver as claimed in claim 1, wherein the signal processing apparatus is designed to process the first radio received signal and the second radio received signal in sync.

10. The radio receiver as claimed in claim 1, which further has a radio-frequency signal processor, that is connected downstream of the antenna arrangement and is connected upstream of the signal processing apparatus, wherein the signal processor is designed to process the first radio received signal and the second radio received signal in sync in order to supply the first radio received signal and the second radio received signal in filtered and amplified fashion to the signal processing apparatus.

11. The radio receiver as claimed in claim 10, wherein an intermediate-frequency signal processor is connected downstream of the signal processor and is connected upstream of the signal processing apparatus, which intermediate-frequency signal processor is designed to process the first radio received signal and the second radio received signal in order to shift the frequency of the first radio received signal and of the second radio received signal and to split them into a plurality of digital signals, before the plurality of digital signals is supplied to the signal processing apparatus.

12. The radio receiver as claimed in claim 11, wherein the signal processor and the intermediate-frequency signal processor are integrated in the signal processing apparatus.

13. The radio receiver as claimed in claim 11, wherein the first radio received signal and the second radio received signal each have a separate signal processor and a separate intermediate-frequency signal processor provided for them, wherein the processing of the first radio received signal and the second radio received signal by the separate signal processors and the processing of the first radio received signal and the second radio received signal by the separate intermediate-frequency signal processors is in sync.

14. The radio receiver as claimed in claim 1, wherein the signal processing apparatus is designed to measure the signal strength of the first radio received signal and of the second radio received signal.

15. The radio receiver as claimed in claim 1, wherein the antenna arrangement has a multi-feed antenna designed to receive a plurality of radio signals having different polarizations and to provide the signal processing apparatus with a plurality of radio received signals.

16. The radio receiver as claimed in claim 12, wherein the first radio received signal and the second radio received signal each have a separate signal processor and a separate intermediate-frequency signal processor provided for them, wherein the processing of the first radio received signal and the second radio received signal by the separate signal processors and the processing of the first radio received signal and the second radio received signal by the separate intermediate-frequency signal processors is in sync.