WO2010038359A1 - 無線到来方向推定装置及び無線到来方向推定方法 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a wireless arrival direction estimation device and a wireless arrival direction estimation method for estimating the radio wave arrival direction of a specific tag.
- UWB Ultra Wide Band
- the IEEE 802.15.4a standard discloses a four-point positioning method and a method of measuring a distance by measuring a round trip time.
- a method for measuring the tag position there is a method for measuring the tag position by combining the distance measurement result described above and a technique for estimating the azimuth angle at which the tag exists as the arrival direction of the radio wave.
- the position of the tag is obtained in principle from the principle of polar coordinates.
- Non-Patent Document 1 is cited as a document covering the arrival direction estimation technology of radio waves.
- a correlation matrix or covariance matrix is obtained from a signal obtained by an array antenna, and an eigenvector calculation method using the obtained matrix (for example, MUSIC method), beam sweep, null sweep (for example, there is a Capon method.
- an actual IR-UWB (Impulse-Response-UWB) pulse has a wider band compared to a narrowband signal or a carrier wave as assumed in Non-Patent Document 1, and its frequency characteristics are also between general array element systems.
- a large error occurs.
- a wireless arrival direction estimation device using UWB for example, as shown in Patent Document 1, a plurality of distance measurement units are provided, and the arrival direction of radio waves is estimated using the arrival time difference of radio waves from a tag. Is disclosed.
- FIG. 1 shows a configuration of an array antenna 10 having receiving units (antenna elements) 11 to 14.
- the array antenna 10 calculates the azimuth angle of the object using the difference in timing at which the signal reflected from the object arrives at each receiving unit.
- Patent Document 1 when the four receiving units are arranged at positions separated from each other, an accurate angle in the direction of arrival of radio waves can be obtained, but these receiving units are close to each other. When arranged at a position, it is difficult to obtain an accurate angle of the direction of arrival of radio waves. This is because the time difference between the timings of receiving signals at each receiving unit is very small.
- the maximum interval between a plurality of receiving units constituting an array antenna is 20 cm
- the pulse width is about 2 nanoseconds, and an error in the path length of about 30 cm occurs. Therefore, with the configuration shown in Patent Document 1, it is difficult to accurately estimate the arrival direction of radio waves when a plurality of receiving units are arranged at positions close to each other.
- the present invention has been made in view of such a point, and even when a plurality of antenna elements are arranged at short intervals, a wireless arrival direction estimation device and a wireless communication device that accurately estimate the arrival direction of a radio wave from a desired tag
- An object of the present invention is to provide an arrival direction estimation method.
- the wireless arrival direction estimation apparatus of the present invention includes a UWB antenna that receives a signal transmitted from a tag, tag ID detection means that detects a tag ID from the signal received by the UWB antenna, and the tag ID is detected.
- Timing detection means for detecting the timing and the sample timing of the ID bit string of the tag ID in association with each other, an array antenna composed of a plurality of antenna elements for receiving signals transmitted from the tag, and the array antenna Using calculation means for calculating relative amplitude phase information indicating a relative amplitude and a phase difference between the plurality of antenna elements from the signal, a timing associated with a sample timing of the ID bit string, and the relative amplitude phase information
- Direction of arrival estimation for estimating the direction of arrival of the signal transmitted from the tag A configuration that includes a stage, the.
- the wireless arrival direction estimation method of the present invention includes a tag ID detection step of detecting a tag ID from a signal transmitted from a tag and received by a UWB antenna, a timing at which the tag ID is detected, and an ID bit string of the tag ID.
- the present invention it is possible to accurately estimate the arrival direction of radio waves from a desired tag even when a plurality of antennas are arranged at short intervals.
- wireless arrival direction estimation apparatus The block diagram which shows the structure of the radio
- the block diagram which shows the internal structure of the arrival direction estimation part shown in FIG. The figure which shows an example of the specific process timing of a radio
- the figure which shows a radio arrival direction estimation result The block diagram which shows the structure of the radio
- the figure which shows the relationship between the element distance of the array antenna which concerns on Embodiment 3 of this invention, and beam shape The block diagram which shows the structure of the radio
- FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the wireless arrival direction estimation apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
- the tag 100 radiates the ID assigned to the tag 100 to the reader using the IR-UWB signal in any of the active method, passive method, and semi-passive method.
- the reader 110 receives the IR-UWB signal radiated from the tag by the UWB antenna 111 and outputs the received IR-UWB signal to the UWB demodulator 112.
- the UWB demodulator 112 converts the received IR-UWB signal into a baseband signal and outputs it to the tag ID detector.
- an impulse UWB demodulator can obtain a baseband signal by performing envelope detection using a diode having excellent high frequency characteristics.
- the tag ID detection unit 113 compares the baseband signal output from the UWB demodulation unit 112 with a plurality of codes of a code sequence (for example, a PN code or a GOLD code) determined in advance between the tag and the reader. If the comparison results match, the tag ID detection unit 113 recognizes the acquired baseband signal as the desired tag ID. Specifically, in the IR-UWB, the tag ID is transmitted with a signal having a pulse width of about 2 nanoseconds, so that the tag ID detection unit 113 is sufficiently fast so that the signal can be detected with the pulse width of the impulse UWB. The tag ID signal is sampled with a clock.
- a code sequence for example, a PN code or a GOLD code
- the tag ID detection unit 113 holds both the timing of the change point of each bit (“0” or “1”) of the bit string representing the tag ID and the sample timing of the UWB pulse forming each ID, or The timing of only the change point of each bit (“0” or “1”) of the bit string representing the tag ID is held, and this timing is output to the timing detection unit 114.
- the timing detection unit 114 detects the timing output from the tag ID detection unit 113 in association with each ID bit as the reception time.
- the IR-UWB signal radiated from the tag is received by each of the antenna elements 120-1 to 120-3.
- These antenna elements 120-1 to 120-3 constitute an array antenna, and the number of antenna elements is determined by the desired accuracy and the desired ID detection number.
- the number of detected desired IDs is 1, and that the number of antennas is 3 assuming that there are other stationary reflected waves.
- the UWB antenna 111 is an antenna that receives the entire band signal radiated from the tag, whereas the antenna elements 120-1 to 120-3 are narrow bands that receive a part of the IR-UWB band. Antenna.
- the phase error between each antenna system becomes the estimation result error of the direction of arrival estimation, so the phase error between antenna systems is managed within the desired error range by calibration etc. There is a need to. For this reason, in a wideband signal such as UWB, it is necessary to manage the phase accuracy in all bands of the wideband, which is difficult to realize.
- a single continuous wave (hereinafter referred to as “CW: Continuous Wave”) signal included in an IR-UWB signal can be used.
- the UWB signal in the IR-UWB system is generated when an edge signal having a frequency oscillated by a crystal oscillation circuit on the transmission side passes through a band-pass filter.
- the IR-UWB signal is a signal in which CWs with 10 MHz intervals are arranged in the UWB lower band 3.4 to 4.8 GHz or the UWB upper band 7.25 to 10.6 GHz.
- the IR-UWB signal can be handled as 4 GHz or 8 GHz CW, and the center frequency of each antenna element of the array antenna can be set to a frequency of 4 GHz or 8 GHz.
- Signals received by the antenna elements pass through bandpass filters 121-1 to 121-3, are subjected to interference cancellation, and then converted to IF signals or IQ baseband signals by down converters 122-1 to 122-3.
- the IF signal is converted into an IF signal of 10 MHz.
- the local signal is a signal separated by 10 Mz above or below 4 GHz / 8 GHz, and it is desirable to use an image rejection mixer in order to remove a close image.
- the adjacent CW signal is cut by a baseband filter having a cutoff frequency of about 5 MHz.
- the IF signals or IQ baseband signals generated by the down converters 122-1 to 122-3 are input to the AD converters 123-1 to 123-3, converted into digital signals, and input to the relative amplitude phase information calculation unit 124. Entered.
- the relative amplitude phase information calculation unit 124 calculates a correlation matrix or a covariance matrix for the input signal of each antenna element for each sample, using the digital signals output from the AD conversion units 123-1 to 123-3. To do.
- the pulse is an OOK (On-Off-Keying) type IR-UWB, since the signal has a DC component, generally a covariance matrix is calculated by subtracting the signal average component from the correlation matrix.
- a correlation matrix may be generally used.
- the correlation matrix or covariance matrix is stored in the memory in the relative amplitude phase information calculation unit 124.
- the arrival direction estimation unit 125 uses the correlation matrix or covariance matrix accumulated in the relative amplitude phase information calculation unit 124 and the timing output from the timing detection unit 114 to determine the arrival direction of the radio wave from the tag 100. presume. Details of the arrival direction estimation unit 125 will be described below.
- FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an internal configuration of the arrival direction estimation unit 125 shown in FIG.
- the reference clock is shared within the same casing of the reader 110, and the ID detection timing output from the timing detection unit 114 is given to the switch 201 as a counter or memory address value for the clock.
- the arrival direction estimation unit 125 obtains relative amplitude phase information related to either the digital value “1” or “0” of the tag ID.
- the first addition unit 202 that adds the relative amplitude phase information related to the digital value “1” of the tag ID for each element of the matrix and the relative value related to the digital value “0” of the tag ID.
- the second addition unit 203 that adds the amplitude phase information for each element of the matrix, the relative amplitude phase information is obtained for each unit period (bit period in which one bit of the tag ID generated from a plurality of UWB pulses is transmitted). One is formed.
- the arithmetic unit 204 subtracts the relative amplitude phase information generated by the second adder 203 from the relative amplitude phase information generated by the first adder 202, The phase of the signal corresponding to the value “1” phase is extracted.
- the information corresponding to the digital value “1” includes an incoming signal from the tag (a signal indicating the bit “1” included in the bit string indicating the tag ID) and a noise component such as a reflected wave from other than the tag.
- the information corresponding to the digital value “0” is an unnecessary signal (noise component) including a reflected wave from other than the tag ID.
- the reflected wave signal from other than the tag is removed with a simple configuration. It is possible to improve the accuracy of estimation of the direction of arrival of radio waves from the tag.
- the Fourier beam sweep unit 205 can obtain the arrival direction distribution as the signal intensity by sweeping the Fourier beam with respect to the azimuth angle or the elevation angle using the relative amplitude phase information.
- the peak detection unit 206 can detect the arrival direction of the radio wave by obtaining the peak value of the signal intensity of the azimuth spectrum signal.
- the horizontal axis in FIG. 4 is the sample timing, and the vertical axis is the intensity of the signal received by the antenna elements 120-1 to 120-3 at each sample timing.
- a periodic impulse signal is transmitted from the reader 110 by a passive method or a semi-passive method, and a reflected wave arrives from the direction of 30 degrees, and the antennas 120-1 to 120 when receiving the reflected wave are shown.
- the direction of 30 degrees is an angle formed with the normal direction of the straight line where the antennas 120-1 to 120-3 are arranged.
- the reader 110 transmits area notification information corresponding to a wireless LAN beacon from the reader 110 side.
- an impulse signal having a constant period of about 10 MHz is transmitted.
- the pulse signal has a pulse width of about 2 nanoseconds due to the characteristics of UWB.
- the phase of the signal from each antenna element of the array antenna varies in accordance with the path length difference between the antenna element and the wall surface with respect to each frequency component of the broadband pulse. For example, in an array antenna designed with an element spacing of 1/2 wavelength when applying 4 GHz, a signal arriving from the 30 degree direction arrives at the antenna element due to a phase difference of 1/4 wavelength, but at 3 GHz and 5 GHz About 25 percent phase error occurs. In the present invention, since the impulse signal is down-converted and handled as a narrowband signal, this error does not occur.
- FIG. 4B shows an antenna 120 ⁇ when the tag 100 existing in the ⁇ 30 ° direction adds an ID to the passive impulse signal from the reader 110 and the reader 110 receives the signal with the ID added. It is a waveform in 1-120-3. The direction of ⁇ 30 degrees is an angle formed with the normal direction of the straight line where the antennas 120-1 to 120-3 are arranged.
- the horizontal axis shows an example of sampling timing, but the tag 100 shows an example in which the ID bit is returned in units of 50 samples in response to the periodic pulse from the reader 110.
- FIG. 4B shows a code “1” from 0 to 50 samples, a code “0” from 51 samples to 100 samples, a code “1” from 101 samples to 150 samples, and a code “1” from 151 samples to 200 samples.
- the amplitude shows an example in which the array antenna receives a signal from the tag 100 at half the amplitude in FIG. 4A so that FIG. 4A and FIG. 4B can be compared.
- the phase of the signal at each antenna element of the array antenna varies in accordance with the path length difference between the reader antenna element and the wall surface with respect to each frequency component of the broadband pulse.
- FIG. 4C is an IF signal or IQ baseband signal output from the down converter when the signal shown in FIG. 4A and the signal shown in FIG. 4B are combined.
- the signal is down-converted to a pulse generation period (for example, 10 MHz)
- the two signals are combined.
- the phase of the combined signal is observed as the amplitude of the I signal (solid line) and the amplitude of the Q signal (dashed line).
- the tag 100 returns an ID bit to the reader 110 in units of 50 samples.
- the fact that the code “0” is sent from the sample to 256 samples can be identified by the ID detection timing signal obtained from the timing detection unit 114.
- the code “0” does not include the incoming signal from the tag and includes only the reflected wave
- the code “1” includes the incoming signal and the reflected wave from the tag. Therefore, as relative amplitude phase information at the time of code “0”, covariance is obtained from a plurality of sample data (50 samples of data in the above example) sampled at the intracode timing of the ID bit of code “0”. Deriving a matrix. Further, as relative amplitude phase information at the time of code “1”, covariance is obtained from a plurality of sample data (50 samples of data in the above example) sampled at the intracode timing of the ID bit of code “1”. Deriving a matrix.
- the relative amplitude phase information when the code is “0” and the relative amplitude phase information when the code is “1” are the same number.
- a covariance matrix obtained as a 3 ⁇ 3 matrix is derived.
- the arrival direction of the radio wave may be detected by the Fourier beam and peak detection that are generated by using one 3 ⁇ 3 covariance matrix.
- the covariance matrix is used as the relative amplitude phase information.
- any information other than the covariance matrix may be used as long as the phase difference information between the antenna elements can be detected.
- the relative amplitude and phase information is detected using the signals of all 50 samples of code “0” and code “1”, but the phase is not discontinuous at the boundary of code switching.
- the relative amplitude phase information may be calculated using a sample of a partial section of each code.
- FIG. 5A shows an output result of the Fourier beam sweep unit 205 when the signal shown in FIG. 4A and the signal shown in FIG. 4B are combined and the covariance matrix is not identified by the ID.
- the horizontal axis in FIG. 5 is an estimated azimuth (azimuth, in a horizontal plane) angle (unit: degree), and the vertical axis is a signal intensity at each angle.
- the result is that the Fourier beam is calculated using the covariance matrix derived using each sample timing from 0 to 256 samples.
- the Fourier beam is a method of adding the received signal over all antenna elements while correcting the relative phase difference of the received signal of the array element assumed in the estimated azimuth direction with respect to the received signal.
- the received signal is added in phase and the signal strength is maximized.
- the direction in which the received addition signal becomes maximum is estimated as the arrival direction.
- the relative amplitude and phase between the antenna phases are calculated, so the direction can be estimated by a Fourier beam.
- the Fourier beam has a peak in two directions, that is, the direction of the tag is ⁇ 30 degrees and the direction of the wall reflected wave is 30 degrees. Have. Further, since the reflected wall wave is stronger than the tag, a maximum peak occurs in the direction of wall reflection, and erroneous detection occurs.
- FIG. 5B shows the output result of the Fourier beam sweep unit 205 when the arrival direction estimation unit 125 of FIG. 3 is used.
- the reflected wave component is subtracted and the influence is exerted. Since it becomes weaker, the maximum peak is obtained in the tag direction.
- the IR-UWB system reader down-converts the received signal to narrow the band, and uses the relative amplitude phase information at the timing when the specific tag ID is detected, and the radio wave
- the arrival direction of the radio wave can be estimated with high accuracy even in a reader whose interval between the plurality of antenna elements constituting the array antenna is as small as one wavelength.
- the influence of wall reflection is shown in the passive method and the semi-passive method, but the ID of a specific tag is detected even for the interference of multiple tags and the influence of multiple waves in the active method. Then, the arrival direction of the radio wave may be estimated based on the timing.
- the array antenna is configured by three antenna elements.
- the number of antenna elements is not limited as long as the number of antenna elements is two or more.
- the array antenna may be configured by using a linear array, a circular array (including an unequal interval array), or a V-shape.
- a UWB antenna for ID detection may be used as a part of the array antenna.
- FIG.6 is a block diagram showing a configuration of radio arrival direction estimation apparatus 110A according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention.
- FIG. 6 differs from FIG. 2 in that antennas 420-1 to 420-3, bandpass filters 421-1 to 421-3, and down converters 422-1 to 422-3 are added, and AD converters 123-1 to 123-3 are added. 123-3 is changed to AD converters 423-1 to 423-3.
- Antennas 420-1 to 420-3 receive signals in a band different from the UWB band received by antennas 120-1 to 120-3.
- the bandpass filters 421-1 to 421-3 and the down converters 422-1 to 422-3 also have different bands from the bandpass filters 121-1 to 121-3 and the down converters 122-1 to 122-3. Process the signal.
- the AD converters 423-1 to 423-3 include two types of narrowband signals, the signals output from the down converters 122-1 to 122-3 and the signals output from the down converters 422-1 to 422-3. Then, a signal with a good reception level is selected, or AD conversion is performed by synthesizing these two types of narrowband signals.
- the reader receives signals in a plurality of bands, so that even when the reception level of some bands decreases due to fading, the fading frequency correlation of signals in other frequency bands. Is low, the signal can be received with a sufficiently high reception level, and the direction of arrival estimation accuracy can be maintained with high accuracy.
- two types of narrowband signals of UWB are used, but three or more types of narrowband signals may be used.
- FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing a configuration of radio arrival direction estimation apparatus 110B according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention.
- FIG. 7 differs from FIG. 2 in that an antenna element 120-4, a band pass filter 121-4, a down converter 122-4, and an AD converter 123-4 are added. That is, the wireless arrival direction estimation device 110B has four antenna elements that constitute an array antenna used for estimating the arrival direction of radio waves.
- the relative amplitude phase information calculation unit 124 uses the digital signals output from the AD conversion units 123-1 to 123-4 to calculate the correlation matrix or covariance matrix for the input signal of each antenna element for each sample. Is calculated.
- FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an arrangement example of the entire antenna unit composed of the array antenna composed of the antenna elements 120-1 to 120-4 and the UWB antenna 111.
- the antenna elements 120-1 to 120-3 are arranged at the vertices of an equilateral triangle whose side is d.
- the antenna element 120-4 is arranged at the center of gravity of the equilateral triangle.
- the UWB antenna 111 is separated by a distance L from one of the three antenna elements arranged at the apex of the equilateral triangle (the antenna element 120-2 in FIG. 8) that is closest to the UWB antenna 111. Placed in a different position.
- the distance d between the antenna elements 120-1 to 120-3 and the separation distance L between the antenna element 120-2 and the UWB antenna 111 depend on the frequency of the IR-UWB signal and the center frequency of each antenna element 120. Based on this, it is determined as follows.
- the IR-UWB signal is treated as a CW of 4 GHz or 8 GHz, and the center frequency of each antenna element 120 of the array antenna is set to a frequency of 4 GHz or 8 GHz.
- the inter-element distance d of the antenna elements 120 constituting the outer periphery of the array antenna can be set in the range of 0.36 to 0.44 ⁇ or in the range of 0.72 to 0.88 ⁇ . desirable.
- ⁇ which is a unit of d, indicates a wavelength calculated from the speed of light C ( ⁇ 2.998 ⁇ 10 ⁇ 8 m / sec) and the center frequency f.
- FIG. 9 shows a directional beam shape when the array antenna is excited with equal amplitude.
- 9A to 9F show directional beam shapes at different inter-element distances d.
- the inter-element distances d in FIGS. 9A to 9F are 0.4 ⁇ , 0.5 ⁇ , 0.3 ⁇ , 0.7 ⁇ , 0.8 ⁇ , and 0.9 ⁇ , respectively.
- the horizontal axis represents the horizontal plane (Azimuth) angle
- the vertical axis represents the directivity gain of the array antenna normalized by the maximum value.
- the side lobe rises as shown in FIG. 9B, it becomes difficult to separate two incoming waves having a level difference.
- the side lobe is about ⁇ 4 dB relative to the main beam. Therefore, if the two incoming waves have a level difference of 4 dB or more, the arrival directions of the two waves cannot be estimated separately. Further, when the main beam spreads as shown in FIG. 9C, it becomes easy to be affected by receiver noise, so that the estimation accuracy of the arrival direction is deteriorated even when there is one incoming wave.
- the configuration of the wireless arrival direction estimation device 110B is configured to suppress the mutual coupling by increasing the separation distance between the antenna elements. That is, in many cases, it is more practical to adopt a configuration that agrees well with the theoretical analysis result even if the size of the entire antenna unit in radio arrival direction estimation apparatus 110B is somewhat larger.
- the inter-element distance d of the antenna elements 120-1 to 120-3 constituting the outer periphery is such that two incoming waves are separated and one incoming wave is separated. This parameter is determined by a trade-off with the estimation accuracy.
- the inter-element distance d is preferably about 0.4 ⁇ or about 0.8 ⁇ . Specifically, when the center frequency of the IR-UWB signal is handled as 4 GHz, for example, d is about 30 mm when 0.4 ⁇ , and about 60 mm when 0.8 ⁇ . Further, when the center frequency of the IR-UWB signal is handled as 8 GHz, for example, d is about 15 mm when 0.4 ⁇ , and about 30 mm when 0.8 ⁇ .
- the above-described separation distance L is preferably 1 ⁇ or more in the same wavelength unit. This is a separation distance that serves as a guide for reducing the degree of mutual coupling between antennas to -30 dB or less.
- Non-Patent Document 2 describes the relationship between the distance between two microstrip antennas and the degree of mutual coupling. When the degree of mutual coupling increases, the directivity of each of the two antennas that are mutually coupled is distorted, and the direction of arrival estimation accuracy and IR-UWB reception sensitivity are degraded.
- antenna elements 120-1 to 120-3 are arranged at three vertices of an equilateral triangle, and antenna element 120-4 is arranged in the equilateral triangle. Located at the center of gravity.
- the symmetry of the array antenna shape is improved, so that it is possible to realize an array antenna that can receive signals coming from any direction with a good balance.
- the length d of one side of the equilateral triangle is in the range of 0.36 to 0.44 ⁇ or 0.72 to 0 when the wavelength of the received signal of the wireless arrival direction estimation apparatus 110B is ⁇ . Desirably it is in the range of .88 ⁇ . Further, it is desirable that the distance L between the UWB antenna 111 and the nearest antenna element 120-2 among the antenna elements 120-1 to 120-3 is 1 ⁇ or more.
- the sharpness of the main beam can be maintained at a constant level while suppressing the side lobe level, so that the receiving sensitivity of the array antenna can be improved.
- the arrival direction estimation accuracy in the wireless arrival direction estimation device 110B is also improved.
- the antenna elements 120-1 to 120-4 are particularly preferably a monopole antenna, a sleeve dipole antenna, or a microstrip antenna, but are not limited thereto. Further, by arranging the antenna elements 120-1 to 120-3 on the ground plane as monopole antennas or sleeve dipole antennas, or by using the antenna elements 120-1 to 120-3 as microstrip antennas, the radio arrival direction In the estimation device 110B, it is possible to estimate the three-dimensional direction of arrival for the hemisphere above the ground plane.
- FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing a configuration of radio arrival direction estimation apparatus 100C according to Embodiment 4 of the present invention.
- FIG. 10 is different from FIG. 7 in that a distributor 800 is provided at the subsequent stage of the UWB antenna 111 and the UWB antenna 111 is shared as one of the antenna elements constituting the array antenna used for direction of arrival estimation. It is. That is, the received signal of the UWB antenna 111 is distributed to two using the distributor 800, and then one is input to the UWB demodulator 112 and the other is input to the bandpass filter 121-4 for estimating the arrival direction. Is done.
- the relative amplitude phase information calculation unit 124 uses the digital signals output from the AD conversion units 123-1 to 123-4 to calculate the correlation matrix or covariance matrix for the input signal of each antenna element for each sample. Is calculated.
- FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of an antenna unit including the antenna elements 120-1 to 120-3 and the UWB antenna 111.
- the antenna elements 120-1 to 120-3 are arranged at the vertices of an equilateral triangle whose side is d.
- UWB antenna 111 is arranged at the center of gravity of the equilateral triangle. That is, the UWB antenna 111 is arranged at the center of gravity and is shared as one of the antenna elements of the array antenna. Therefore, an array antenna having a beam shape similar to that shown in FIG. 9A can be realized by setting the inter-element distance d to about 0.4 ⁇ .
- antenna elements 120-1 to 120-3 are arranged at three vertices of an equilateral triangle, and UWB antenna 111 is arranged at the center of gravity of the equilateral triangle. Then, the relative amplitude phase information calculation unit 124 calculates relative amplitude phase information indicating the relative amplitude and the phase difference between the antenna elements from the signals received by the antenna elements 120-1 to 120-3 and the UWB antenna 111.
- the antenna elements 120-1 to 120-3 and the UWB antenna 111 constitute an array antenna, and the symmetry of the shape of the array antenna is improved. Therefore, an array that can receive signals from any direction in a well-balanced manner. An antenna can be realized.
- UWB antenna 111 may be arranged at the center of gravity of an equilateral triangle in which antenna elements 120-1 to 120-3 are arranged. That is, in this case, the UWB antenna 111 functions only as an antenna that receives the entire band signal radiated from the tag, and is not shared as one of the antenna elements constituting the array antenna for direction of arrival estimation. .
- the antenna elements 120-1 to 120-3 are particularly preferably a monopole antenna, a sleeve dipole antenna, or a microstrip antenna, but are not limited thereto. Further, by arranging the antenna elements 120-1 to 120-3 on the ground plane as monopole antennas or sleeve dipole antennas, or by using the antenna elements 120-1 to 120-3 as microstrip antennas, the radio arrival direction In the estimation device 110C, it is possible to estimate the three-dimensional direction of arrival for the hemisphere above the ground plane.
- the wireless arrival direction estimation device and wireless arrival direction estimation method according to the present invention can be applied to a wireless tag system including a reader / writer and a wireless tag.
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図2は、本発明の実施の形態1に係る無線到来方向推定装置の構成を示すブロック図である。この図において、タグ100は、アクティブ方式、パッシブ方式、セミパッシブ方式のいずれの方式においても、タグ100に付与されたIDをIR-UWB信号を用いてリーダに放射する。
図6は、本発明の実施の形態2に係る無線到来方向推定装置110Aの構成を示すブロック図である。図6が図2と異なる点は、アンテナ420-1~420-3、バンドパスフィルタ421-1~421-3、ダウンコンバータ422-1~422-3を追加し、AD変換部123-1~123-3をAD変換部423-1~423-3に変更した点である。
図7は、本発明の実施の形態3に係る無線到来方向推定装置110Bの構成を示すブロック図である。図7が図2と異なる点は、アンテナ素子120-4、バンドパスフィルタ121-4、ダウンコンバータ122-4、及びAD変換部123-4が追加された点である。すなわち、無線到来方向推定装置110Bは、電波の到来方向推定に用いるアレーアンテナを構成する4つのアンテナ素子を有している。また、相対振幅位相情報算出部124は、AD変換部123-1~123-4から出力されたディジタル信号を用いて、サンプル毎に各アンテナ素子の入力信号に対して、相関行列又は共分散行列を算出する。
図10は、本発明の実施の形態4に係る無線到来方向推定装置100Cの構成を示すブロック図である。図10が図7と異なる点は、UWBアンテナ111の後段に分配器800が設けられるとともに、UWBアンテナ111が、到来方向推定に用いるアレーアンテナを構成するアンテナ素子の一つとして共用されている点である。つまり、UWBアンテナ111の受信信号は、分配器800を用いて2つに分配された後、一方はUWB復調部112へ入力され、他方は到来方向推定用としてバンドパスフィルタ121-4へと入力される。また、相対振幅位相情報算出部124は、AD変換部123-1~123-4から出力されたディジタル信号を用いて、サンプル毎に各アンテナ素子の入力信号に対して、相関行列又は共分散行列を算出する。
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- タグから送信された信号を受信するUWBアンテナと、
前記UWBアンテナによって受信した前記信号からタグIDを検出するタグID検出手段と、
前記タグIDが検出されたタイミングと、前記タグIDのIDビット列のサンプルタイミングとを対応付けて検出するタイミング検出手段と、
前記タグから送信された信号を受信する複数のアンテナ素子からなるアレーアンテナと、
前記アレーアンテナによって受信した前記信号から前記複数のアンテナ素子間の相対振幅及び位相差を示す相対振幅位相情報を算出する算出手段と、
前記IDビット列のサンプルタイミングと対応付けられたタイミングと、前記相対振幅位相情報とを用いて、前記タグから送信された信号の到来方向を推定する到来方向推定手段と、
を具備する無線到来方向推定装置。 - 前記到来方向推定手段は、
前記IDビット列のビット1に関係付けられたタイミングでサンプルされた複数のサンプルデータを用いて生成される相対振幅位相情報を加算する第1加算手段と、
前記IDビット列のビット0に関係付けられたタイミングでサンプルされた複数のサンプルデータを用いて生成される相対振幅位相情報を加算する第2加算手段と、
前記第1加算手段によって加算された相対振幅位相情報から前記第2加算手段によって加算された相対振幅位相情報を減算する演算手段と、
前記演算手段の減算結果を用いて、フーリエビームをスイープさせて角度スペクトルを算出するフーリエビームスイープ手段と、
前記角度スペクトルのピークを検出するピーク検出手段と、
を具備する請求項1に記載の無線到来方向推定装置。 - 前記複数のアンテナ素子は、前記UWBアンテナが受信する信号より狭帯域の信号を受信する請求項1に記載の無線到来方向推定装置。
- 前記算出手段は、前記受信信号から相関行列又は共分散行列を前記相対振幅位相情報として算出する請求項1に記載の無線到来方向推定装置。
- 前記アレーアンテナは、
第1中心周波数を有する第1の複数のアンテナ素子と、
前記第1中心周波数とは異なる第2中心周波数を有する第2の複数のアンテナ素子と、
を具備する請求項1に記載の無線到来方向推定装置。 - 前記第1の複数のアンテナ素子によって受信した受信信号と前記第2複数のアンテナ素子によって受信した受信信号とを切り替え又は合成する切り替え合成手段を具備する請求項5に記載の無線到来方向推定装置。
- 前記複数のアンテナ素子は、正三角形の3つの頂点に配置された第1乃至第3のアンテナ素子と、前記正三角形の重心に配置された第4のアンテナ素子とから構成される、
請求項1に記載の無線到来方向推定装置。 - 前記複数のアンテナ素子は、正三角形の3つの頂点に配置された第1乃至第3のアンテナ素子から構成され、
前記UWBアンテナは、前記正三角形の重心に配置される、
請求項1に記載の無線到来方向推定装置。 - タグから送信され、UWBアンテナによって受信した信号からタグIDを検出するタグID検出工程と、
前記タグIDが検出されたタイミングと、前記タグIDのIDビット列のサンプルタイミングとを対応付けて検出するタイミング検出工程と、
前記タグから送信され、複数のアンテナ素子からなるアレーアンテナによって受信した信号から前記複数のアンテナ素子間の相対振幅及び位相差を示す相対振幅位相情報を算出する算出工程と、
前記IDビット列のサンプルタイミングと対応付けられたタイミングと、前記相対振幅位相情報とを用いて、前記タグから送信された信号の到来方向を推定する到来方向推定工程と、
を具備する無線到来方向推定方法。
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