Planar phased array antenna fast measurement and automatic calibration method

• Main Authors: YANG YANJIONG, WANG YI, YANG RUIPING, CHENG ZHE
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 18.08.2017
• Subjects: ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; MEASURING; PHYSICS; RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; TESTING

The present invention provides a planar phased array antenna fast measurement and automatic calibration method. The method includes the following steps that: the patterns, amplitudes, phases and beam widths of measured phased array antenna units and a test probe are obtained through a near-field antenna test; the probe is arranged in front of a measured phased array antenna, one of channels in the measured phased array antenna is opened in turns with the other channels closed, the coefficients of transmission between each of the channels and the probe are tested; the transmission coefficient matrix of the whole array plane of the phased array antenna can be obtained; the initial phases of the channels are calculated through using relative position relationships between the probe and the measured phased array antenna units; and if the fluctuation of the initial phase of the array plane is larger than half of the minimum phase shift quantity of phase shifters used by the array antenna, the initial phase is cali