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  • Joint TOA and AOA Estimatio...
    Taponecco, L.; D'Amico, A. A.; Mengali, U.

    IEEE transactions on wireless communications, 07/2011, Letnik: 10, Številka: 7
    Journal Article

    A joint TOA/AOA estimator is proposed for UWB indoor ranging under LOS operating conditions. The estimator employs an array of antennas, each feeding a demodulator consisting in a squarer and a low-pass filter. Signal samples taken at Nyquist rate at the filter outputs are processed to produce TOA and AOA estimates. Performance is assessed with transmitted pulses with a bandwidth of either 1.5 GHz (type-1 pulses) or 0.5 GHz (type-2 pulses), which correspond to sampling rates of 3 GHz and 1 GHz, respectively. As expected, the estimation accuracy decreases with the pulse bandwidth. Ranging errors of about 10 cm and angular errors of about 1° are achieved at SNR of practical interest with type-1 pulses and two antennas at a distance of 50 cm. With type-2 pulses the errors increase to 35 cm and 3°. Comparisons are made with other schemes discussed in literature.