Method for determining the position of an object, device for determining the position of an object, and system
AssigneeRheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH
InventorsJürgen Schmitz, Markus Jung, Michael Camp, Alexander Graf, Ellen Dudek
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for determining a position of an object, which comprises at least one non-linear component, in particular one semiconductor component, which, when irradiated with high-frequency transmitted signals from at least two different positions, produces and emits object signals having twice and/or three times the frequency of the respective transmitted signals.
Claims15
A method for determining a position of an object, which comprises at least one non-linear component including a semiconductor component, which, when irradiated with high-frequency transmitted signals from at least two different positions, produces and emits object signals having twice and/or three times the frequency of the respective transmitted signals, the method comprising:
- determining the angle of incidence having a maximum backscatter power of each transmitted signal;
- determining a position of the object by triangulation based on the angle of incidence having the maximum backscatter power of each transmitted signal and on the positions from which the transmitted signals were emitted;
- irradiating, with at least one transmitting device, the object with at least two transmitted signals emitted from different positions;
- receiving, by at least one receiving device, the object signals emitted by the at least one non-linear component having twice and/or three times the frequency of the transmitted signals;
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- determining a backscatter power of the object signals taking into account an angle of incidence of the transmitted signals.
A device for determining a position of an object, which comprises at least one non-linear component including a semiconductor component, which, when irradiated with high-frequency transmitted signals from at least two different positions, produces and emits object signals having twice and/or three times the frequency of the respective transmitted signals, the device comprising:
- a circuit device configured to measure the angle of incidence having a maximum backscatter power of each transmitted signal, and to determine a position of the object by triangulation on the basis of the angle of incidence having the maximum backscatter power of each transmitted signal and on the basis of the positions;
- at least one transmitting device configured to produce at least two transmitted signals emitted from different positions;
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- at least one receiving device configured to receive object signals, the frequency of which corresponds to two and/or three times the frequency of the respective transmitted signals,
- wherein the at least one transmitting device and the at least one receiving are operationally connected to the circuit device, which is configured to determine the backscatter power of the object signals taking into account an angle of incidence of the transmitted signals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.