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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2000
John Anderson Fergus Ross, Del Mar, CA (US);
John Erik Hershey, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Richard August Korkosz, Rotterdam Junction, NY (US);
Naofal Mohammed Wassel Al-Dhahir, Chatham, NJ (US);
William Robert McKinney, Loveland, OH (US);
Bruce Gunter Schings, Loveland, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A system for directing a receiving lobe of an adaptive antenna array toward an aircraft in flight includes an aircraft position vector calculator and an antenna weight vector generator. The aircraft position vector calculator receives aircraft position information from an aircraft tracking service and calculates, based upon the aircraft position information it receives, an aircraft position vector g. An antenna weight vector generator receives the aircraft position vector g from the aircraft position vector calculator and generates, based upon the aircraft position vector g, an antenna element weight vector w. The antenna weight vector w is applied to the elements of an adaptive antenna array to direct a receiving lobe of the array towards an aircraft in flight.