Interferometer ambiguity resolution using missile roll

Details Interferometer ambiguity resolution using missile roll Interferometer ambiguity resolution using missile roll

1991-12-27

1993-06-08

Blum, Theodore M.

Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g.,

Directive

Beacon or receiver

342424, 342442, 342449, G01S 502

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active

052183610

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus and methods of achieving accurate, unambiguous angle information with a minimum number of antenna elements. The present invention resolves the ambiguities inherent in a long baseline phase interferometer by employing a minimum number of antennas to form shorter baselines. The present invention employs roll motion (antenna rotation) to reorient interferometer baselines and a signal processor to measure the roll angle. Taking interferometer phase data with at least two orientations of the interferometer baselines permits resolution of the ambiguities. This also allows the use of long antenna baselines thereby achieving high angular accuracy with angle ambiguities resolved using only two antenna elements per spatial angle. This reduces system complexity and reduces the required clear aperture area, factors of great significance in missile systems. The invention takes phase data at two or more interferometer baseline orientations and forms a set of simultaneous equations involving the phase ambiguities. These equations are solved to produce unambiguous target direction vectors. The interferometer may employ four antennas to obtain maximum accuracy angle data unambiguously and simultaneously in both azimuth and elevation. However, three antennas may also be used with some loss in angle accuracy.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5053784 (1991-10-01), Hippelainen

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