SBIR/STTR Research Award
ANTIMULTIPATH SYSTEM FOR MEASUREMENT OF ULTRALOW SIDELOBE ANTENNA PATTERNS
Award amount
$640,231Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1993Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- ZEGER-ABRAMS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
A NOVEL TECHNIQUE IS PROPOSED WHICH WILL ALLOW THE RESOLUTION, ANALYSIS, AND SUPPRESSION OF THE MULTIPATH COMPONENTS OF AN ANTENNA RANGE MEASUREMENT TEST SIGNAL% THE TECHNIQUE ACHIEVES TIME DELAY RESOLUTION MUCH FINER THAN THE RECIPROCAL OF THE BANDWIDTH OF THE TEST SIGNAL* AS A RESULT, ULTRA LOW SIDELOBE ANTENNA MEASUREMENTS CAN BE MADE IN REAL TIME WITHOUT USING AN ULTRA WIDEBAND TEST SIGNAL AND WITHOUT CORRUPTION BY UNAVOIDABLE MULTIPATH ARTIFACTS ON THE ANTENNA TEST RANGE. COMPUTER PROGRAMS THAT SIMULATE THE OPERATION OF THIS NEW MULTIPATH SUPPRESSION TECHNIQUE WILL BE USED TO OPTIMIZE THE SYSTEM PARAMETERS FOR OPERATION AT THE SPECIFIED MEASUREMENT SPEED AND ACCURACY. THIS WILL PROVIDE A DEMONSTRATION OF FEASIBILITY AND WILL ALLOW THE DESIGN DEFINITION OF A HARDWARE PROTOTYPE TO BE FORMULATED. THE PARAMETERS OF THE PROTOTYPE HARDWARE SYSTEM WILL BE OPTIMIZED FOR THE ACCURATE REAL TIME MEASUREMENT OF ULTRA LOW SIDELOBES AND NULLS OF A MODERN ANTENNA ARRAY#
Technology keywords
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