Beidou receiver based on anti-jamming antenna arrays with self-calibration for precise relative positioning

doi:10.23919/JSEE.2024.000013

Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2024, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (5): 1132-1147.doi: 10.23919/JSEE.2024.000013

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Beidou receiver based on anti-jamming antenna arrays with self-calibration for precise relative positioning

Yi AN(), Ronglei KANG(), Yalong BAN(), Shaoshuai YANG()

The 10th Research Institute, China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Chengdu 610036, China

Received:2022-05-14 Accepted:2023-12-14 Online:2024-10-18 Published:2024-11-06
Contact: Yi AN E-mail:mranyi@163.com;kangronglei@qq.com;yalong_ban@qq.com;juipop@163.com
About author:
AN Yi was born in 1983. He received his Ph.D. degree from Beijing Jiao Tong University, Beijing, China, in 2015. He is a senior engineer in Southwest China Institute of Electronic Technology, Chengdu. His research interests include array signal processing, satellite navigation and positioning. E-mail: mranyi@163.com

KANG Ronglei was born in 1984. He received his M.S. degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 2009. He is a senior engineer in Southwest China Institute of Electronic Technology, Chengdu. His research interests include satellite navigation and communication system. E-mail: kangronglei@qq.com

BAN Yalong was born in 1987. He received his Ph.D. degree from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 2016. He is a senior engineer in Southwest China Institute of Electronic Technology, Chengdu. His research interests include inertial navigation and integrated navigation. E-mail: yalong_ban@qq.com

YANG Shaoshuai was born in 1988. He received his M.S. degree from Beihang University, Beijing, China, in 2013. He is an engineer in Southwest China Institute of Electronic Technology, Chengdu. His research interests include integrated navigation and relative navigation. E-mail: juipop@163.com
Supported by:
This work was supported by the Key Research and Development Program of Science & Technology Department of Sichuan Province (2021YFG0155), and the Technical Innovation Fund of Southwest China Institute of Electronic Technology (H21004.2).

Abstract

Abstract:

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) may be subjected to unintentional radio frequency interference (RFI) or hostile jamming attack which will lead to fail to track global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals. Therefore, the simultaneous realization of anti-jamming and high-precision carrier phase difference positioning becomes a dilemmatic problem. In this paper, a distortionless phase digital beamforming (DBF) algorithm with self-calibration antenna arrays is proposed, which enables to obtain distortionless carrier phase while suppressing jamming. Additionally, architecture of high precision Beidou receiver based on anti-jamming antenna arrays is proposed. Finally, the performance of the algorithm is evaluated, including antenna calibration accuracy, carrier phase distortionless accuracy, and carrier phase measurement accuracy without jamming. Meanwhile, the maximal jamming to signal ratio (JSR) and real time kinematic (RTK) positioning accuracy under wideband jamming are also investigated. The experimental results based on the real-life Beidou signals show that the proposed method has an excellent performance for precise relative positioning under jamming when compared with other anti-jamming methods.

Key words: Beidou receiver, antenna array, anti-jamming, high precision, distortionless carrier phase

Yi AN, Ronglei KANG, Yalong BAN, Shaoshuai YANG. Beidou receiver based on anti-jamming antenna arrays with self-calibration for precise relative positioning[J]. Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2024, 35(5): 1132-1147.

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Frequency	Jamming type	Bandwidth/MHz	Power/dBm	Number
B1	Wideband	4	−10	2
B3	Wideband	20	−10	2

Channel	PRN	Sample 1/(°)	Sample 2/(°)	Sample 3/(°)	Sample 4/(°)	C/N₀/(dBHz)
ch0	2	23.42	59.17	−81.37	58.30	39.2
ch1	2	24.43	58.78	−82.77	58.71	43.1
ch1−ch0	2	Phase errors mean=4.2/(°), phase errors standard deviation=2.5/(°)
ch2	9	−127.28	72.68	−41.47	150.52	43.5
ch3	9	−128.42	72.96	−41.43	148.82	47.4
ch3−ch2	9	Phase errors mean=−0.7/(°), phase errors standard deviation =4.9/(°)

PRN	$ {\sigma _\phi } $/(cycle)
PRN	B1	B3
6	0.0077	0.0081
9	0.0077	0.0084
12	0.0085	0.0079
13	0.0075	0.0078
16	0.0074	0.0085
21	0.0067	0.0074
22	0.0065	0.0070

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