Abstract: The reconfigurable radio direction finder system and method uses a reconfigurable antenna to electronically cycle through a plurality of different antenna configurations to determine a signal direction. Specifically, the reconfigurable antenna is cycled through N different antenna configurations, where N is an integer greater than one, where each antenna configuration has a pointing direction associated therewith defined by an elevation angle ?n of an n-th antenna configuration, where n is an integer between 1 and N, and an azimuthal angle ?n of the n-th antenna configuration. A received signal strength of the radio signal is measured for each of the antenna configurations as a power output of the n-th antenna configuration, Pn.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 7, 2014
Date of Patent:
November 14, 2017
Assignee:
QATAR FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND COMMINITY DEVELOPMENT
Inventors:
Hassan Mohamed El-Sallabi, Mohamed Mahmoud Abdallah, Khalid Ali Qaraqe, Gregory H. Huff, Jean-Francois Chamberland-Tremblay