Enchanced interference cancellation and telemetry reception in multipath environments with a single paraboic dish antenna using a focal plane array
First Claim
1. A focal plane array antenna and processing system comprising:
- a parabolic dish antenna;
a focal plane array comprising a plurality of focal plane antenna elements in the focal plane of said parabolic dish antenna;
a processing system for reception of multiple telemetry streams simultaneously in the presence of multipath.
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Abstract
An Advanced Focal Plane Array (“AFPA”) for parabolic dish antennas that exploits spatial diversity to achieve better channel equalization performance in the presence of multipath (better than temporal equalization alone), and which is capable of receiving from two or more sources within a field-of-view in the presence of multipath. The AFPA uses a focal plane array of receiving elements plus a spatio-temporal filter that keeps information on the adaptive FIR filter weights, relative amplitudes and phases of the incoming signals, and which employs an Interference Cancelling Constant Modulus Algorithm (IC-CMA) that resolves multiple telemetry streams simultaneously from the respective aero-nautical platforms. This data is sent to an angle estimator to calculate the target'"'"'s angular position, and then on to Kalman filters FOR smoothing and time series prediction. The resulting velocity and acceleration estimates from the time series data are sent to an antenna control unit (ACU) to be used for pointing control.
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18 Claims
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1. A focal plane array antenna and processing system comprising:
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a parabolic dish antenna; a focal plane array comprising a plurality of focal plane antenna elements in the focal plane of said parabolic dish antenna; a processing system for reception of multiple telemetry streams simultaneously in the presence of multipath. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A focal plane array antenna system comprising:
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a parabolic dish antenna; a focal plane array comprising a plurality of focal plane antenna elements in the focal plane of said parabolic dish antenna; a spatio-temporal filter for deriving information on adaptive FIR filter weights, relative amplitudes and phases of the signals from said focal plane array; an angle estimator connected to said spatio-temporal filter for computing a target'"'"'s angular position with respect to the antenna'"'"'s pointing axis; a filter in communication with said angle estimator for extracting velocity and acceleration estimates from the time series data; and an antenna control unit, in communication with said filter, used for pointing control of said parabolic dish antenna. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12)
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13. A method of processing telemetry received from a target at a parabolic antenna in the presence of multipath, comprising the steps of:
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receiving telemetry at a multi-receiving element radio frequency focal plane array positioned in a focal plane of said parabolic antenna to create a plurality of input signals having spatial diversity; downconverting each of said plurality of input signals to complex baseband signal components; combining each of said plurality of complex baseband signal components using adaptive filters and retaining information on the adaptive filter weights, relative amplitudes and phases of the complex baseband signal components; computing instantaneous estimates of the target'"'"'s angular position with respect to a pointing axis of said parabolic antenna; producing time series data based on said computed target position estimates; and predicting angular velocity and acceleration of said target based on said time series data. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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