JP2002232364A - Radio azimuth indicator - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To readily specify a propagating azimuth of reflected waves to reduce failures caused by reflected waves of radio waves. SOLUTION: A time domain for receiving and analyzing unnecessary reflected waves is measured while a measuring system is moved, a propagation path of radio waves is geometrically analyzed by ray tracing, a propagation path is specified from the measurement result and the analysis result, and the data is read (130). Next, an angle of an azimuth indication driving section is changed. Namely, an azimuth is found as to a straight line connecting the position coordinate of a reflecting point and the azimuth indication driving section, an attack angle and a rotation angle are computed regarding a radiating azimuth of a laser beam, and data is sent so as to drive an attack angle drive and a rotation angle drive by the computed attack angle and rotation angle (132, 134). Subsequently, a part around a reflected part is illuminated by turning on a light source. Therefore, an operator can visually confirm the reflected part.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a radio direction indicator, and more particularly to a radio direction indicator for specifying a reflection path of a radio wave.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Confirmation work such as identity confirmation and use confirmation is performed by workers, and automation is desired. For example, in toll facilities, usage fees are collected manually by workers, and it is assumed that usage fees of this toll facility are automatically collected, and that tolls are collected at entrance gates and exit gates of toll roads. 2. Description of the Related Art Communication devices that automatically perform radio communication are known. In this communication device, a communication device (hereinafter, referred to as an interrogator) for transmitting and receiving radio waves to the road side in order to inquire the corresponding vehicle for information.
And a communication device (hereinafter referred to as a transponder) for responding to the inquiry from the interrogator from the vehicle side is installed in the vehicle, and information is exchanged between the interrogator and the transponder by radio wave communication. I do.

By the way, as is well known, in radio communication, a transmitted radio wave is received by directly receiving the transmitted radio wave or by receiving a radio wave reflected by a building or the like. When the reflected radio wave is received together with the directly received radio wave, the reflected radio wave acts as noise,
It interferes with signals due to radio waves that should be received. In other words, the problem has become apparent as EMI (radio wave interference) due to unnecessary reflected waves. For this reason, radio waves are transmitted using an antenna having directivity on the transmitting side, that is, the interrogator, and the area in which radio waves can be received is limited to ensure the response of the transponder.

[0004]

However, even if radio waves are transmitted by an antenna having directivity, it is difficult to receive all the radio waves only by the transponder. Other than radio waves, they propagate on the route and become reflected waves at buildings or the like, which may affect other transponders. Further, even in radio wave transmission using an antenna having directivity, transmission of a weak radio wave outside the range of directivity cannot be avoided, so that it has been difficult to eliminate reflected waves. In particular, in an ETC tollgate system that requests information transfer for a moving object such as a vehicle, a reflection obstacle occurs due to a road surface, a tollgate roof, and tollgate laying objects.

An object of the present invention is to provide a radio wave direction indicating device capable of easily specifying the azimuth of the reflected wave in order to suppress the obstacle due to the reflected wave of the radio wave in consideration of the above fact.

[0006]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a radio azimuth indicating apparatus for measuring a spatio-temporal characteristic of a radio wave from a transmission source, the radio azimuth measurement device comprising: A reflected wave from the transmission source based on a transmission path and transmission time of a radio wave from the transmission source to the measurement position obtained based on predetermined structural information of an article installed around the measurement position. And a light source that emits a light beam in the derived direction when arriving at the measurement position included in the transmission path.

As a measure against reflection failure, it is effective to install a radio wave absorber at a reflection point to attenuate the energy of the reflected wave. However, it was difficult to make the radio waves obvious from which direction the radio waves came. Therefore, the inventor first specifies a propagation path of a radio wave, which is effective for specifying a reflected wave, indicates the specified path with visible light, and installs a radio wave absorber on the propagation path. That was taken into account.

[0008] The deriving means is configured to measure a spatio-temporal characteristic of a radio wave from the transmission source and a transmission source determined based on predetermined structural information of articles installed around the transmission source and the measurement position. The transmission path of the reflected wave from the transmission source is determined based on the transmission path and transmission time of the radio wave from to the measurement position. At the same time, the deriving unit derives an azimuth when the vehicle reaches the measurement position included in the transmission path. Thus, the azimuth of the reflected wave can be specified. The light source means
A light beam is emitted in the derived direction. by this,
The reflected wave can be visually presented, and the reflection-absorbing material can be easily installed.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the radio wave direction indicating apparatus according to the first aspect, the light source means includes a light source for emitting a light beam and data representing the derived direction. It is characterized by including conversion means for converting into an elevation angle and a turning angle, and driving means for changing the emission direction of the light beam emitted from the light source to an angle corresponding to the converted elevation angle and turning angle.

The derived data representing the bearing is represented by, for example, latitude and longitude, or three-dimensional coordinate values, and it is not easy for an operator who refers to the data to grasp the data.
Therefore, by converting the data representing the derived azimuth into the elevation angle and the turning angle of the light beam,
The emission direction of the light beam can be easily changed. Also, presenting the data of the conversion result makes it easy for the operator to grasp.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the radio wave direction indicating apparatus according to the second aspect, the light source emits a laser beam as a light beam.

By emitting the light beam, it is easy to grasp the portion corresponding to the reflection by reflecting the light beam. In this case, the distance to the target article may fluctuate greatly, and using a light beam having a constant divergence angle may make it difficult to identify the relevant part. If the light source emits a highly linear laser beam as a light beam, regardless of the distance to the target article, the spot reaches the article and can be visually identified by the reflection of the article. It will be easier.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the radio wave direction indicating device according to any one of the first to third aspects,
The deriving unit measures a reception level of a radio wave from a transmission source, and measures a time characteristic representing a correspondence between the reception level of the radio wave and a reception delay time at a measurement position of the reception level exceeding a predetermined reception level. Based on the time characteristics, the component corresponding to the reflected wave of the radio wave from the transmission source is estimated, and the radio wave of the estimated component is specified as the temporary reflection wave, and the vicinity of the transmission source to the measurement position is specified. Based on predetermined structural information of the installed article, a plurality of transmission paths and transmission times of radio waves from the transmission source to the measurement position are obtained,
The transmission path of the transmission time corresponding to the reception delay time of the time characteristic of the specified provisionally reflected wave from the plurality of transmission paths is determined as a transmission path of the reflected wave from the transmission source. .

It is conceivable that the propagation path of a radio wave is geometrically estimated or estimated by actual measurement. There is a ray tracing method as a method of geometric estimation (supervised by Radio Wave Propagation Handbook: Yoshio Hosoya / Kitami Institute of Technology). In the ray tracing method, structural data of an article predicted to reflect a radio wave is prepared in advance, input as data, and a reflected wave is estimated using the data. However, since it is difficult to keep all the buildings existing around the propagation path where the radio wave is expected to be reflected as data, estimation with a small amount of data will include the radio wave that is actually propagating. Many estimation results may be obtained and are difficult to identify. As a method of estimation by actual measurement, there is a time domain method (see “Chapter 11 T
ime-Domain Reflectmetry '' GH Bryant, Principle o
f Microwave Measurements (IEE Electrical Measureme
nt Series 5), Peter Perigrinus, 1993.). The time domain method estimates a reflected wave by measuring a delay time when receiving a radio wave. However, the reflected wave estimated from the delay time is only its existence, and the propagation direction cannot be specified.

Therefore, the reception level of the radio wave from the transmission source is measured, and a time characteristic indicating the correspondence between the reception level of the radio wave and the reception delay time is measured at a measurement position of the reception level exceeding a predetermined reception level. This predetermined reception level is
It is possible to set a value experimentally obtained using the SN when the radio wave is actually received by the transponder as a boundary. Based on this time characteristic, a component corresponding to a reflected wave of the radio wave from the transmission source is estimated, and the radio wave of the estimated component is specified as a temporary reflected wave. For this identification, a time domain method can be used. The component corresponding to the reflected wave may be all the signal components exceeding the predetermined reception level, or may be a signal component having a reception level determined for reflected wave detection and exceeding the reception level for reflected wave detection. Next, a plurality of transmission paths and transmission times of radio waves from the transmission source to the measurement position are obtained based on predetermined structural information of articles installed around the transmission source to the measurement position. The structure information may be obtained in advance from the terrain or the like, or a measured result may be used. The ray trace method can be used to determine the transmission path and transmission time of this radio wave. And
The transmission path of the transmission time corresponding to the reception delay time of the time characteristic of the provisionally reflected wave specified from the plurality of transmission paths is determined as the transmission path of the reflected wave from the transmission source. in this way,
Since the path corresponding to the actual measurement result is specified from the theoretically (geometrically) determined propagation path of the radio wave, a more accurate and shorter propagation path can be determined in a shorter time.

Incidentally, in order to easily specify the transmission path of the reflected wave, it is possible to derive it from the fluctuation of the measured value. That is, the fluctuation direction of the level is grasped from the distribution (contour) of the received power level. For example, if the level is higher on the left side (lower side) than on the right side (upper side) with respect to an arbitrary point, it is assumed that the reflected wave is coming from the left side. Therefore, instead of determining the route based on time, the arrival direction of the radio wave can be grasped from the distribution of the received power level.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the radio wave direction indicating device according to any one of the first to third aspects, the deriving means sets the reception level of the radio wave from the transmission source to a different direction. A plurality of measurements are made, and at a measurement position at a reception level exceeding a predetermined reception level and at a measurement direction at the measurement position, a time characteristic representing the correspondence between the reception level of the radio wave and the reception delay time is measured, and On the basis of the,
Estimate the component corresponding to the reflected wave of the radio wave from the transmission source, specify the radio wave of the estimated component as a temporary reflection wave, and determine in advance the articles installed in the vicinity from the transmission source to the measurement position. Based on the obtained structural information, a plurality of transmission paths and transmission times of the radio waves from the transmission source to the measurement position are obtained, and the reception delay time and the time characteristic of the time characteristic of the specified provisionally reflected wave from among the plurality of transmission paths. The transmission path of the transmission time corresponding to the measurement azimuth is determined as a transmission path of a reflected wave from the transmission source.

Here, a plurality of reception levels of the radio wave from the transmission source are measured in different directions, and the reception level of the radio wave is measured at a measurement position having a reception level exceeding a predetermined reception level and at a measurement direction at the measurement position. And a time characteristic representing the correspondence between the delay time and the reception delay time. The predetermined reception level can be set to a value experimentally obtained with SN as a boundary when radio waves are actually received by the transponder. Based on this time characteristic, a component corresponding to a reflected wave of the radio wave from the transmission source is estimated, and the radio wave of the estimated component is specified as a temporary reflected wave. For this identification, a time domain method can be used. The component corresponding to the reflected wave may be all signal components exceeding the predetermined reception level,
Further, a reception level for detecting the reflected wave may be determined, and a signal component exceeding the reception level for detecting the reflected wave may be used. Next, a plurality of transmission paths and transmission times of radio waves from the transmission source to the measurement position are obtained based on predetermined structural information of articles installed around the transmission source to the measurement position. The ray trace method can be used to determine the transmission path and transmission time of this radio wave. Then, the transmission path of the transmission delay time corresponding to the reception delay time of the temporal characteristic of the provisionally reflected wave specified from the plurality of transmission paths and the measurement direction is determined as the transmission path of the reflected wave from the transmission source. As described above, since the path corresponding to the actual measurement result is specified from the propagation path of the radio wave theoretically (geometrically), a more accurate and shorter propagation path can be determined.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the radio azimuth pointing device according to the fourth or fifth aspect, the provisionally reflected wave is a radio wave having a response waveform other than the response waveform that first arrives. It is characterized by being specified as. Even if the antenna has directivity, direct waves will fly,
The direct wave becomes the first response waveform. Therefore, by specifying a radio wave having a response waveform other than the response waveform that arrived first as a provisionally reflected wave, it is possible to specify a radio wave that is highly likely to be a reflected wave. In this case, if the radio waves corresponding to the reception levels in descending order of the response waveform are specified, the reflected waves can be specified in descending order of intensity.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, in the radio wave direction indicating apparatus according to any one of the first to sixth aspects, the deriving means includes a peripheral structure from the transmission source to the measurement position. Investigation means for investigating is included, and a plurality of transmission paths and transmission times of the radio wave are obtained based on the structural information investigated by the investigation means. As an example of the surveying means, there is a measuring device such as a measurement using a scale, a three-dimensional measurement using a laser beam, a three-dimensional measurement using a captured image of a camera, and the like. The surrounding structure can be investigated, that is, structural information can be obtained. This makes it easy to update the structural information that fluctuates a lot.

[0021]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In the present embodiment, the present invention is applied to a measurement system for optimizing a radio wave state of an information exchange system for exchanging information between an interrogator installed on a road and a transponder installed in a vehicle. .

The information exchange system applicable to the present embodiment performs a radio communication between a transponder mounted on a vehicle and an interrogator having an antenna installed on the ground side, so that Is a system for settling tolls and the like without stopping.

As shown in FIG. 1, an interrogator 10 applicable to the present embodiment is installed at a toll road gate or the like. The interrogator 10 includes an antenna 12 attached to an arch 82 installed on a road 80 and an antenna 1
2 and a control device 14 installed in the gate box 84. This control device 14
Is for communicating, via the antenna 12, the toll information and the like of the toll road with the transponder 30 mounted on the vehicle 86 by radio wave communication. The antenna 12 includes a wireless device not shown. This wireless device allows the antenna and the control device 14
It is arranged to be a signal that can be exchanged between

The transponder 30 can be replaced with a measuring system 50 for optimizing the radio wave condition on the system described later. Further, the present invention is not limited to the replacement of only the transponder 30, and the interrogator 10 can be replaced for measurement when the measurement system 50 is considered.

The antenna 12 has a predetermined directivity for communicating (transmitting and receiving) with the transponder 30.
A communication area Ar having a predetermined direction is set. The communication area Ar is formed by installing the antenna 12 so as to be separated upward from the road 80 and to have the directivity directed toward the road 80 at a predetermined angle. This enables communication with the vehicle 86 passing through the communication area Ar.

As shown in FIG. 2, the interrogator 10 includes an antenna 12 and a control device 14. The control device 14 is composed of a computer including a CPU 16, a ROM 18, a RAM 20, a memory 22, and an input / output port (I / O) 24, and each is connected by a bus 26 so that commands and data can be exchanged. Note that R
The OM 18 stores a processing routine for processing a query to the transponder 30. In the input / output port 24,
The antenna 12 is connected via the control device 14.
The input / output port 24 can be connected to a reading device that can read and write information from and to a recording medium, and can be configured to read and write data and commands.

The transponder 30 for communicating with the interrogator 10 includes an antenna 32 and a controller 3 in the same manner as described above.
4. The control device 34 includes a CPU 36 and a ROM connected to a bus 46 for transmitting and receiving commands and the like.
38, RAM 40, memory 42 and input / output port (I /
O) A computer comprising 44. Note that R
The OM 38 stores a processing routine for response processing to the interrogator 10. Also, the antenna 32
It includes a wireless device not shown. The wireless device prepares a signal that can be exchanged between the antenna and the control device 34.

According to the above configuration, a charging process is performed by a communication process between the answering machine and the interrogator, that is, a communication process is performed between the transponder 30 attached to the vehicle 86 and the interrogator 10 to perform a billing process. .

Next, a description will be given of a measuring system 50 according to the present embodiment for optimizing the radio wave condition of the above system. The measurement system 50 according to the present embodiment includes the interrogator 10
This is to provide support for suppressing the input of radio waves from to the transponder 30 as unnecessary reflected waves.

As shown in FIG. 3, the measurement system 50
A measuring unit 52 for measuring a radio wave state, a direction indicating drive unit 54 for indicating a direction of a reflected wave, an input unit 62 such as a keyboard,
It comprises a display unit 64 for displaying measurement results and the like, and a control device 66.

The measuring section 52 is provided with the antenna 21 of the interrogator 10.
An antenna for receiving a radio wave transmitted from the device is provided for measuring a radio wave propagation characteristic in a time domain, and is connected to the control device 66. The measurement unit can include a measurement device such as a network analyzer. This measuring unit measures the received power level of the radio wave and measures the time domain response of the direct wave and the reflected wave of the received radio wave. Although details will be described later, it is preferable that the measurement unit 52 be connected to the interrogator 10 in order to synchronize with the radio wave transmitted from the antenna 21 of the interrogator 10.

The azimuth indicating drive unit 54 includes a measuring system 50.
For indicating the direction in which the reflected wave reaches the antenna of the measuring unit 52, that is, the antenna of the measuring unit 52.
6, an elevation driving device 58 and a turning angle driving device, which are connected to the control device 66.

The control unit 66 includes a CPU 68, a ROM 70, and a RA connected to a bus 78 for transmitting and receiving commands and the like.
M72, a memory 74 and an input / output port (I / O) 76. It should be noted that the ROM 70 stores a processing routine for processing for measuring a radio wave state.

As shown in FIG.
Includes a light source 56 such as a laser device that emits a laser beam L having a low beam spread. In the present embodiment,
A configuration is employed in which a laser beam having a low beam spread is emitted from the light source 56, but is not limited to the laser beam.
That is, since the azimuth instruction in the present embodiment is for illuminating the reflected portion of the specified radio wave, it is only necessary to illuminate at least a part of the target reflected portion.

The light source 56 is attached to an elevation driving device 58. The elevation driving device 58 changes the direction of the light source 56 in order to drive the laser beam emitted from the light source 56 to change the elevation angle with respect to the horizontal.
The elevation driving device 58 is attached to the turning angle driving device 60. The turning angle drive device 60 is for changing the direction of the light source 56 in order to change and drive the turning angle of the laser beam emitted from the light source 56 in the horizontal direction.

As shown in FIG. 5, the azimuth to be instructed by the azimuth instructing drive unit 54 is based on the X-axis and the Y-axis, which are orthogonal to the horizontal direction (for example, the traveling direction of the road), as a reference. Is defined as the turning angle φ with respect to the line of the orthogonal projection on the XY plane. Further, based on a Z axis (for example, a direction perpendicular to a road) orthogonal to the XY plane (vertical direction), the angle of the laser light L to the laser light L with respect to a line segment of the orthogonal projection of the XY plane is defined as an elevation angle θ Determine.

Next, the operation of the present embodiment will be described. In the present embodiment, a case will be described in which at least the radio wave receiving portion included in the measurement unit 52 of the measurement system 50 is mounted on the vehicle 86 for measurement.

As shown in FIG. 6, when the measurement process is started, the measurement system 50 proceeds to step 100 in step 100.
The movement processing of the measurement system 50 is started. The moving process is a process for searching for a corresponding location (a location where an unnecessary reflected wave is received) while moving on a target road 80. In the present embodiment, the measurement range V is predetermined in the horizontal direction, and the measurement range H is predetermined in the vertical direction (see FIG. 1). In this case, one of the end points of the measurement range is set as a start point, and the other is set as an end point, and a movement process is performed between them.

In the next step 102, the measuring section 52 measures the reception level of the radio wave from the interrogator 10 and determines in step 104 whether the measured reception level is within a predetermined allowable range. The predetermined allowable range is obtained by experimentally obtaining an SN boundary value when radio waves are actually received by the transponder as a reception level, and setting the value.

If the determination in step 104 is affirmative, there is no obstacle due to the received radio wave, so the flow advances to step 106 to determine whether the measurement system 50 is within the movement range (the measurement range V and the measurement range H). Judge. Step 10
If affirmative in step 6, the process returns to step 102, and if negative, all measurements have been completed, so step 122
Then, the routine ends after the moving process is completed.

On the other hand, if the result in step 104 is negative, the process proceeds to step 108, in which a reflected wave is extracted in step 110 after time domain measurement is performed. The measurement process in step 108 is a measurement in the time domain, and is a process of estimating a reflected wave by measuring a delay time when a radio wave is received.

FIG. 7 shows a characteristic representing the relationship between the delay time and the received signal level as an example of the measurement result in the time domain. The example of FIG. 7 indicates that a radio wave of a delay time (components TD1 and TD2) in which the received signal level becomes significantly large is measured. It is assumed that the radio wave corresponding to the first component TD1 is a direct wave. This is because the direct wave has the shortest propagation distance and is considered to arrive first. Therefore, it can be estimated that a radio wave corresponding to a high-level component other than the component TD1 is a reflected wave. In the present embodiment, to simplify the description, a radio wave corresponding to the component TD2 of the delay time t1 is extracted as a reflected wave. Note that a plurality of reflected waves may be extracted.

In the next step 112, a propagation path analysis is performed. The analysis process in step 112 is a ray tracing process for geometrically analyzing the propagation path of the radio wave transmitted from the interrogator 10 to the measurement unit 52. In this step 112, as an analysis result, the azimuth and the delay time of each propagation path are obtained together with the plurality of propagation paths.

In the next step 114, the target reflected wave is determined. Step 114 is processing for determining any one of the reflected waves as the target reflected wave when there are a plurality of reflected waves measured in step 108 and extracted in step 110. Here, a radio wave corresponding to the component TD2 of the delay time t1 is determined as a reflected wave.

In the next step 116, a propagation path is specified. In step 116, one of the target reflected waves determined in step 114, that is, one of the radio waves corresponding to the reflected waves measured in step 108 and extracted in step 110, among the plurality of propagation paths obtained from the analysis results of step 112.
The propagation path of the delay time corresponding to the two delay times is derived, and the derived propagation path is specified.

In the next step 118, the above step 1
On the propagation path specified in 16, a reflection part until reaching the measuring unit 52 is indicated. That is, step 11
In step 8, laser light is emitted toward the reflection site on the transmission path specified in step 116 (details will be described later).

In the next step 120, the above step 1
It is determined whether or not the above processing has been completed for all the reflected waves extracted in step 10. If negative, the processing returns to step 114. If affirmative, the routine ends after moving processing in step 122. .

Next, the details of the processing in step 118 in FIG. 6 will be described. When step 118 is started, FIG.
Is executed. First, in step 130, the data of the propagation path specified in step 116 is read. In this case, it becomes possible by reading data (for example, position coordinates x, y, z) of the reflection point on the propagation path. In the next step 132, the direction instruction driving unit 5
4 and the emission direction of the laser beam. In the next step 134, the azimuth instruction drive unit 54 performs an angle changing process. First, the azimuth of a straight line connecting the position coordinates x, y, z of the reflection point and the azimuth instruction drive unit 54 is determined, and
Regarding the difference from the emission direction of the laser light grasped in 32,
Find the elevation and turning angles. Next, data is transmitted so that the elevation angle drive device 58 and the rotation angle drive device 60 are driven by the obtained elevation angle and the rotation angle.

The changing process in step 134 may be changed after the above-mentioned elevation angle and turning angle are converted into the above-mentioned elevation angle θ and turning angle φ (FIG. 5). That is, the azimuth of a straight line connecting the position coordinates x, y, z of the reflection point and the azimuth instruction drive unit 54 may be converted into an elevation angle θ and a turning angle φ.

In the next step 136, the light source 56 is turned on. Thereby, the vicinity of the reflection part is illuminated. Therefore, it becomes possible for an operator to visually confirm the reflection site. This facilitates installation of the reflection absorbing member. In the next step 138, it is determined whether or not an instruction to confirm the installation of the reflection-absorbing member and the end of the confirmation processing has been given by the input of the worker or the operator.
Then, after the light source 56 is turned off, this routine ends.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the reception state of the radio wave is actually measured, and the propagation path of the transmission radio wave is obtained by the geometric analysis. Then, the path of the radio wave estimated to be a reflected wave in the reception state by actual measurement is
Selected from analysis results. Therefore, in the propagation path including the azimuth obtained by the geometric analysis, it is determined in correspondence with the actual measurement result that is actually predicted as a reflected wave, so that it is possible to more reliably determine the reflected wave. it can.

Further, since the location on the path of the determined reflected wave can be indicated by the laser beam, the operator can easily grasp the installation location of the material for suppressing the reflection.

In the present embodiment, the case where radio waves are measured by one antenna as the measuring section 52 has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the measurement unit 52 includes a plurality of antennas having different directions for receiving radio waves transmitted from the antenna 21 of the interrogator 10, and can measure radio wave propagation characteristics in a time domain.

As shown in FIG. 9, an antenna 53 provided in the measuring section 52 includes a plurality of antennas having different measurement directions (in this case, antennas 53A, 53B, 54C, 53C).
D). That is, in the antenna 53 of the measurement unit 52, each of the antennas 53
While receiving radio waves almost simultaneously by A-53D,
Since the receiving direction is set differently, it is possible to measure from which receiving direction the radio wave from which direction is strong. As a result, it is possible to eliminate the point that the azimuth cannot be measured only by the reception intensity.

The azimuth measured by the antenna is set to each azimuth divided into four equal parts in the horizontal direction.
The plurality of directions are not limited to four directions.
It is sufficient if it is in two directions or more, and it is not limited to the horizontal direction. For example, the elevation angle and the turning angle may be set to one or two or more, and each azimuth may be treated as the measurement azimuth.

FIG. 10 shows an example of measuring a plurality of directions with one antenna. That is, the antenna 53
Is rotated in a predetermined direction (the direction of arrow R in the example of FIG. 10). As a result, an arbitrary direction can be set in a fixed time, and the degree of freedom in setting the direction can be improved.
This rotation direction is not limited to one axis. For example, the rotation may be performed on two or more axes. For example, the rotation axis can be set so that the elevation angle and the turning angle are changed.

By providing phase information at a plurality of points using one antenna or a plurality of antennas without changing the actual azimuth (directivity) of the antenna, equivalently obtaining the directional characteristics of the antennas Can be.

FIG. 12 shows an example in which the azimuth is measured by an array antenna having a plurality of antennas. The array antenna 90 has a plurality of antennas 92 arranged vertically and horizontally. The directivity and electrical characteristics of these antennas 92 are set substantially the same. The output of the array antenna 90 is equivalent to a configuration in which the output of the antenna element 93 forming each antenna 92 shown in FIG. 13 is added via the amplitude adjuster 94 and the variable phase shifter 95 to obtain an output. It has been. Data of both amplitude and phase is given to any one of the plurality of antennas. This allows the directional characteristics of the antenna to be set in any direction,
The direction of the radio wave can be grasped from the degree of the interference.

Next, the operation by a plurality of antennas will be described. Although the operation in this case is shown in FIG. 11, it is substantially the same as the process shown in FIG. 6, and the difference is that the process of step 108 in FIG. 6 is changed to step 130 in FIG.

If the reception level (reception level of one antenna of the antenna array) measured by the measurement unit 52 exceeds a predetermined allowable range, the result in step 104 is negative, and the process proceeds to step 130, where the radio wave measurement by the antenna array 53 is performed. After performing the time domain measurement, a reflected wave is extracted in step 110. The measurement processing in step 130 is a measurement for performing time domain measurement on each of the antennas 53A to 53D of the antenna array 53, and estimates the reflected wave by measuring the reception intensity of the radio wave and the delay time when receiving the radio wave. This is the processing to be performed.

Therefore, according to the measurement performed on each of the antennas 53A to 53D, the antenna that has received the radio wave with the highest reception level (for example, the antenna with the highest radio reception level) transmits the radio wave that is most azimuthally reliable. This corresponds to receiving. As a result, the direction of the antenna that has received the radio wave whose reception level is maximum (for example, the antenna whose reception level is maximum) is close to the direction of the radio wave reaching the antenna.

Then, the propagation path of the delay time corresponding to any one delay time of the radio wave corresponding to the target reflected wave (the extracted reflected wave) is derived from the plurality of determined propagation paths, and the derived path is derived. Identify by determining the propagation path. Here, the extracted reflected wave also includes a rough azimuth specified by the antenna array. Therefore, the specified propagation path can be filtered according to the rough azimuth obtained by the measurement, and the number of data to be specified can be reduced. As a result, the processing time can be shortened, and the measurement time can be reduced.

On the specified propagation path, a reflection part until reaching the measuring unit 52 is indicated. That is, the laser beam is emitted toward the reflection part on the specified transmission path.

[0064]

As described above, according to the present invention, a measurement result obtained by measuring a reception level of a radio wave from a transmission source and a predetermined structure of articles installed around the transmission source to the measurement position are obtained. Since the transmission path of the reflected wave from the source is determined from the calculation result obtained based on the information and the light beam is emitted in that direction, it is possible to instruct a shorter and more reliable propagation path. effective.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an image diagram showing a radio wave path measured by a measurement system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an interrogator and a responder.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of a measurement system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating a configuration of a direction indicating drive unit that indicates the direction of a reflected wave.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a direction of a direction indicating drive unit.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a processing flow of the measurement system according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a measurement result in a time domain.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of a process of designating a reflection site on a propagation path.

FIG. 9 is a conceptual diagram showing a plurality of antennas (antenna array) provided in a measurement unit.

FIG. 10 is a conceptual configuration diagram showing that a plurality of directions are measured by one antenna.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing a flow of measurement by a plurality of antennas in the measurement system according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a conceptual configuration diagram showing an array antenna including a plurality of antennas.

FIG. 13 is a conceptual configuration diagram showing a configuration for adjusting the amplitude and the phase of the output path of the antenna constituting the array antenna.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 10 interrogator 30 transponder 50 measuring system 52 measuring unit 54 direction indicating driving unit 56 light source 58 elevation driving device 60 turning angle driving device 62 input unit 64 display unit 66 control device 80 road 82 arch 84 gate box 86 vehicle L laser light θ Elevation angle φ Turning angle

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Yoshitaka Wakinaka 1-5-1, Otsuka, Inzai City, Chiba Prefecture Inside the Research Institute of Takenaka Corporation (72) Inventor Kenichi Harakawa 1-5-5 Otsuka, Inzai City, Chiba Prefecture 1 Inside Takenaka Corporation Technical Research Institute (72) Inventor Toshio Saito 1-5-1, Otsuka, Inzai-shi, Chiba 1 Inside Takenaka Corporation Technical Research Institute (72) Inventor Takeshi Kunishima 8 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo −21-1 Inside Takenaka Road Co., Ltd. (72) Kenichi Yoshimura, Inventor 8-21-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 8-21-1 Inside Takenaka Road Co., Ltd. (72) Takeo Iwata, 2-2-1 Tadao Machida, Tokyo −405 (72) Inventor Hitoki Shima 1876-36 Honmachida, Machida City, Tokyo (72) Inventor Junichi Takada 1-1-24-204 Sagamihara, Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture F-term (reference) 5J070 AE01 A F01 AK36 BC25 BH12 5K042 CA13 CA17 DA01 DA15 DA19 EA01 EA14 FA15 GA02 JA01 NA04

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. The transmission source obtained based on a measurement result obtained by measuring a spatio-temporal characteristic of a radio wave from the transmission source and predetermined structural information of an article installed around the measurement position from the transmission source. A transmission path and a transmission time of the reflected wave from the transmission source are determined based on a transmission path and a transmission time of the radio wave from the transmission path to the measurement position, and an azimuth when arriving at the measurement position included in the transmission path is derived. And a light source means for emitting a light beam in the derived direction. 2. The light source unit includes: a light source that emits a light beam; a conversion unit that converts the derived azimuth data into an elevation angle and a turning angle of the light beam; The radio wave direction indicating device according to claim 1, further comprising: a driving unit that changes an emission direction of the light beam emitted from the light source to a corresponding angle. 3. The radio direction indicator according to claim 2, wherein the light source emits a laser beam as a light beam. 4. The deriving unit measures a reception level of a radio wave from a transmission source, and indicates a correspondence between the reception level of the radio wave and a reception delay time at a measurement position of the reception level exceeding a predetermined reception level. Measure the time characteristic, estimate the component corresponding to the reflected wave of the radio wave from the transmission source based on the time characteristic, specify the estimated component radio wave as the temporary reflection wave, and perform the measurement from the transmission source. A plurality of transmission paths and transmission times of radio waves from the transmission source to the measurement position are obtained based on predetermined structural information of articles installed around the position, and the identification is performed from the plurality of transmission paths. 4. The transmission path of the transmission time corresponding to the reception delay time of the temporal characteristic of the provisionally reflected wave is determined as a transmission path of a reflection wave from the transmission source. 1 item The radio wave direction indicating device according to 1. 5. The deriving means measures a plurality of reception levels of a radio wave from a transmission source in different directions, and at a measurement position at a reception level exceeding a predetermined reception level and at a measurement direction at the measurement position, A time characteristic representing the correspondence between the reception level of the radio wave and the reception delay time is measured, and based on the time characteristic, a component corresponding to a reflected wave of the radio wave from the transmission source is estimated and the estimated component radio wave is calculated. Specified as a temporary reflected wave, based on the predetermined structural information of the articles installed around from the transmission source to the measurement position, based on the transmission path and transmission time of the radio wave from the transmission source to the measurement position Transmission of the reflected wave from the transmission source through the transmission path of the transmission time corresponding to the reception delay time and the measurement azimuth of the time characteristic of the specified provisionally reflected wave from the plurality of transmission paths, The radio direction indicator according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the direction is determined as a route. 6. The radio wave direction indicating device according to claim 4, wherein the provisionally reflected wave specifies a radio wave having a response waveform other than a response waveform that arrives first as a provisionally reflected wave. 7. The deriving unit includes an investigating unit for investigating a peripheral structure from the transmission source to the measurement position, and determines a plurality of transmission paths and transmission times of the radio wave based on the structural information inspected by the inspecting unit. The radio direction indicator according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the direction is obtained.