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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019
Filed:
May. 07, 2018
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, CO (US);
James Michael Shima, Superior, CO (US);
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, CO (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for locating a target radio frequency (RF) device within an area are provided. In particular, a signal sent from a known transmitter while that transmitter is at a known location is received by a plurality of receivers located in or around the area. This is repeated multiple times for multiple locations. Representations of the signals received at the receivers for the different locations are provided as inputs to a neural network and are used to train the network. After training, representations of signals received at the receivers as a result of one or more signals emitted from a target transmitter located in or traveling through the area can be provided to the network, which in response provides a location of the target transmitter.