Active stabilization of vehicle-mounted phased-array antennas

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2638-2650

  Bolandhemmat, Hamidreza ^a,b   Fakharzadeh, Mohammad ^a,b   Mousavi, Pedram ^b   Jamali, S Hamidreza ^a,b,c   Rafi, Gholamreza Z ^a   Safavi Naeini, Safielddin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Intelwaves Technologies Ltd   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Digital control system; Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation; Hybrid tracking; Microelectromaechanical system (MEMS); Real time experiments; Satellite communication system; Sensor drift; Tracking system

Indexed keywords

DIRECTION-OF-ARRIVAL (DOA) ESTIMATION; HYBRID TRACKING; MICROELECTROMAECHANICAL SYSTEM (MEMS); REAL-TIME EXPERIMENTS; SENSOR DRIFT; TRACKING SYSTEM;

BEAMFORMING; COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; CONTROL; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ESTIMATION; FEEDBACK; HYBRID SYSTEMS; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MILITARY SATELLITES; NAVIGATION; RADIO DIRECTION FINDING SYSTEMS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SENSORS; STABILIZATION; TELEVISION ANTENNAS;

MOBILE ANTENNAS;

EID: 67549142847     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2008.2012159     Document Type: Article

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