Beam-Space MUSIC DOA System Using Phase Shifter

Seung-Wook NAH
Hiroyuki ARAI

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E90-B    No.2    pp.291-295
Publication Date: 2007/02/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e90-b.2.291
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Wireless Communication Technologies
Keyword: 
beamspace MUSIC,  chip-sized phase shifter,  DOA,  quasi-orthogonal,  correlation coefficient,  microstrip array,  

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Summary: 
This paper presents a low cost and portable DOA (Direction Of Arrival) estimation system for surveillance using a modifed beamspace MUSIC (MUltiple Signal Classification) by a quasi-orthogonal multi-beam. This is instead of DFT processing and hardware system consisting of chip-sized phase shifters, a single ADC (Analogue to Digital Converter) and a single TR (TRanceiver) module for an antenna array. In the beamspace MUSIC, generated beampatterns have orthogonal properties. This proposed system cannot make such a beampattern due to the variable range limitation of phase shifter, then we use the quasi-orthogonal beam obtained by the calculation of correlation coefficient for beampattern. We demonstrate the proposed system using 4-element microstrip array antenna and chip-sized phase shifters. The DOA experiment in anechoic chamber confirms the proposed system performance.