EP3352298A1 - Transpondeur à rétrodiffusion par micro-ondes - Google Patents

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EP3352298A1
EP3352298A1 EP17000107.7A EP17000107A EP3352298A1 EP 3352298 A1 EP3352298 A1 EP 3352298A1 EP 17000107 A EP17000107 A EP 17000107A EP 3352298 A1 EP3352298 A1 EP 3352298A1
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Axel Brokmeier
Patrick Scheele
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01QANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q3/00Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an antenna or antenna system
    • H01Q3/26Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an antenna or antenna system varying the relative phase or relative amplitude of energisation between two or more active radiating elements; varying the distribution of energy across a radiating aperture
    • H01Q3/2605Array of radiating elements provided with a feedback control over the element weights, e.g. adaptive arrays
    • H01Q3/2647Retrodirective arrays
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01QANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q1/00Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas
    • H01Q1/12Supports; Mounting means
    • H01Q1/22Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles
    • H01Q1/2208Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles associated with components used in interrogation type services, i.e. in systems for information exchange between an interrogator/reader and a tag/transponder, e.g. in Radio Frequency Identification [RFID] systems
    • H01Q1/2225Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles associated with components used in interrogation type services, i.e. in systems for information exchange between an interrogator/reader and a tag/transponder, e.g. in Radio Frequency Identification [RFID] systems used in active tags, i.e. provided with its own power source or in passive tags, i.e. deriving power from RF signal

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  • the invention relates to a microwave backscatter transponder.
  • a transponder in the context of the present invention is a radio communication device that receives incoming signals from a far-field interrogator and automatically answers or forwards.
  • Backscatter transponders use the physical principle of modulated backscatter to answer the incoming signal, e.g. by keying in and out.
  • the backscatter transponder itself generates no field, but only affects the incident electromagnetic signal of the interrogator, in which he modulates the incident signal.
  • the information content provided via the modulation can be processed by a receiver.
  • the recipient does not necessarily have to be in the same place as the interrogator (this is called a bi-static case). In practice, however, this will usually be the case (monostatic case) in order to use an existing radar sensor. Both in the bi-static and in the monostatic case, these are mainly secondary radar applications.
  • the backscatter transponder antenna comprises an array of four antenna elements AE1 to AE4 (eg designed as antenna patches).
  • the individual antenna patches are each switched over a switch SPDT 1 to SPDT4 between a reflection-free termination LOAD and a fully-reflective termination REFL.
  • the modulation unit here, for example, OOM with a duty cycle of 50%.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a microwave backscatter transponder with improved antenna sidelobe suppression. This object is achieved with the microwave backscatter transponder according to claim 1.
  • Advantageous embodiments are the subject of dependent claims.
  • Fig. 2 shows the structure of a backscatter transponder according to the invention with a linear array AR of four antenna elements AE1 to AE4 (eg designed as patch antenna elements).
  • the array can have any number of antenna elements which are arranged linearly or in two dimensions.
  • the impedance of the two outer antenna elements AE1, AE4 (via the switching of the associated switches SPDT 1 and SPDT 4) is modulated differently than the impedance of the two inner antenna elements AE2, AE3 (via the respective associated switches SPDT 2, SPDT 3).
  • two separate modulation units MOD1, MOD2 are present.
  • the pulse widths for the modulation of the inner switches SPDT 2, SPDT 3 can advantageously be selected so that the on-time corresponds to the off-time (50% duty cycle).
  • the switches SPDT 1, SPDT 4 assigned to the outer antenna elements AE1, AE4 are modulated with a narrower pulse (in this case, for example: 20% duty cycle).
  • the individual modulation signals thus differ in their energy content.
  • Fig. 3 shows the corresponding time curves for the modulation of the switch inner and outer antenna elements.
  • a plurality of groups of antenna elements are formed, wherein the same modulation is applied to all antenna elements of a group.
  • a group preferably consists of at least two antenna elements, but in individual cases may also comprise only one antenna element.
  • the frequency lines drawn without filling form the spectrum in a modulation with a duty cycle of 50% (inner antenna elements), while the hatched drawn spectral lines represent the spectrum of the outer antenna elements (modulation with 20% duty cycle).
  • different signal levels result for the same frequencies depending on the used pulse width (equivalent to the used duty-cycle).
  • the concrete level values for this example are given at the top of each frequency line.
  • any taper (level distribution) across the array can be achieved.
  • modulation i.e., choice of duty cycle or pulse width
  • any taper (level distribution) across the array can be achieved.
  • which one to choose in each case is given by the known sidelobe methods (for example, binomial, Dolph-Chebyshev, etc.).
  • sidelobe methods for example, binomial, Dolph-Chebyshev, etc.
  • the backscatter transponder according to the invention will advantageously have at least three antenna elements.
  • Fig. 5 shows the degree of sidelobe suppression achieved for the example presented according to the Dolph-Chebyshev method (right-hand antenna diagram of FIG Fig. 5 ) compared to a constant amplitude distribution across the array according to the prior art Fig. 2 (left antenna diagram of the Fig. 5 ) in the usual polar coordinate representation. It can be seen that the side lobes are significantly reduced in the embodiment according to the invention.
  • Fig. 6 shows a bi-static system for polling a backscatter transponder TP according to the invention.
  • a signal 1 (eg CW, FMCW) is emitted by a transmitter (interrogator) comprising as essential elements a signal source SQ and an antenna TX.
  • the signal is modulated as described (eg with OOM, AM, FM or PM) in order to impose a predefined information content on it, and is reflected back as a response signal 10 to a receiver which processes the information content provided via the modulation.
  • the receiver comprises, in addition to the antenna RX, a detector DEC for demodulating the received signal and further standard components PROC for signal processing.
  • the receiver comprises a bandpass filter BP, as explained, to limit the signal processing to the frequency lines used for tapering.

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