Design
The Astro-track functional design is
presented along with design
considerations.
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topics
that are included in this
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Design
Topics:
Astro-Location (Portable
Array)
There
are many advantages of using a phased array receiver system including:
angle of arrival estimation, steerable gain, physical diversity
(extremely helpful with Rayleigh fading channels, see MIMO). In
this system we will be using the array to resolve where in the range
ring the RFID Waypoint is.
Below is a diagram of how the
receive antennas will be arranged. These antennas along with the
interrogator and lunar link antennas will be fitted to the astronaut's
back pack.
