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Serial‐fed linear frequency diverse arrays for obtaining direction of arrival (DOA) of frequency modulated continuous waveform (FMCW) sources with ambiguity reduction
Author(s) -
Fartookzadeh Mahdi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of rf and microwave computer‐aided engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1099-047X
pISSN - 1096-4290
DOI - 10.1002/mmce.21900
Subject(s) - waveform , narrowband , transmitter , acoustics , reduction (mathematics) , computer science , electronic engineering , optics , telecommunications , physics , mathematics , engineering , radar , channel (broadcasting) , geometry
Possibility of exploiting serial‐fed linear arrays for obtaining the direction of arrival (DOA) of frequency modulated continuous waveform (FMCW) sources is discussed in this article. The angle of incident wave is assumed to be in the range, [−90°, 90°] , with ambiguity reduction compared with the previous work. At first, the serial‐fed arrays are assumed as a transmitter with triangular FMCW sources, composing modified frequency diverse arrays. An explicit angle dependency is obtained on the separations between the maximums of the produced spatial power pattern in a design procedure. The approach is generalized for modified sawtooth frequency modulated continuous waveform (SFMCW) sources, which are combinations of two SFMCW sources with two different slopes of frequency shifts. In addition, a measurement setup is implied assuming the serial‐fed array as the receiver and an antenna with a known FMCW source and an unknown DOA as the transmitter. The DOA will be obtained from the separations between maxima of the received signals. Advantages of the proposed structure are the simplicity of antenna structure, ability of operation with narrowband antenna elements, and ambiguity reduction compared with the previous work.