WO1997006447A1 - Short range radio locator system - Google Patents
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Definitions
- a crystal oscillator provides the basic timing for such RF bursts.
- a phase locking device e.g., PLL 30, phase locks the receiver crystal oscillator 94 to the transmitter crystal oscillator 114, e.g., with an offset of one hundred hertz.
- the power requirement to operate the radar transmitter 110 is typically on the order of 500 microamperes, so an ordinary small lithium battery is a practical source of mobile power.
- a conventional microcomputer can be connected to the TOF outputs 80 and 106 to compute, by triangulation, the position of the transmitter 110, given the known positions of the receivers 70 and 90, and the known lengths of wire used to connect the synchronizing gate signals from the receivers 90 to the several receivers 70.
- the sliding timing between the two crystal oscillators 94 and 114 provides the situation shown in Fig. 2 where the whole phase range of each transmission period is sampled by the receivers collected by the microcomputer in memory over the course of thousands of such sequential periods.
- the transmit and receive timing frequencies are 2.000000 MHz and 2.000100 MHz, respectively, such course repeats each ten milliseconds, wherein there are 20,000 such sample periods.
- the present invention is also not limited to operating with radio or radar transmission between the rover 12 and the receivers 18, 20, 22, and 24.
- the rover 12 may comprise a xenon strobe light that flashes at a fixed period.
- the receivers 18, 20, 22, and 24 would then necessarily comprise photodetectors to receive the light flashes and then determine the relative geometry. Such a system would then, of course, be susceptible to shadowing.
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