- Patent Title: System and method for blind differential time-of-arrival estimation
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Application No.: US16506342Application Date: 2019-07-09
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Publication No.: US11378645B2Publication Date: 2022-07-05
- Inventor: Carlos J. Chavez
- Applicant: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US IA Cedar Rapids
- Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US IA Cedar Rapids
- Agency: Suiter Swantz pc llo
- Main IPC: G01S5/06
- IPC: G01S5/06 ; G01S5/02 ; G01R29/26 ; H04B3/462

Abstract:
A system for determining a geographical position of a transmitting device is disclosed. In embodiments, the system includes a concentrator device and a plurality of sensors. In embodiments, each sensor may be configured to: receive an emitter signal from a transmitting device; generate a demodulated sequence of the emitter signal; generate a time-of-arrival (TOA) estimate of the emitter signal; and transmit the demodulated sequence and the TOA estimate to the concentrator device. In embodiments, the concentrator may be configured to: receive a first demodulated sequence and a first TOA estimate (TOA1) from a first sensor; receive a second demodulated sequence and a second TOA estimate (TOA2), from a second sensor; determine a first arbitrary timing offset (ATO1) between the first demodulated sequence and the second demodulated sequence; and determine a first differential TOA estimate (TOADiff1) between the first sensor and the second sensor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210247480A1 System and Method for Blind Differential Time-of-Arrival Estimation Public/Granted day:2021-08-12
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