Spoofing detection and anti-jam mitigation for GPS antennas

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10690776-B2
Application number	US-201515507860-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 4, 2015
Priority date	Sep 5, 2014
Publication date	Jun 23, 2020
Grant date	Jun 23, 2020

Abstract

There is provided an apparatus comprising an antenna (105) configured to receive a signal from a global navigation satellite system, wherein the antenna includes a first feed and a second feed; a hybrid coupler (110) including a first hybrid input, a second hybrid input, a first hybrid output, a second hybrid output, and wherein the first hybrid output is shifted in phase by 90 degrees relative to the second hybrid output; a variable phase shifter (150) including a shifter input and a shifter output, hybrid output; and a combiner (155) including a first combiner input, a second combiner input, and a combiner output, wherein the first combiner input is coupled to the shifter output, and the second combiner input is coupled to the second hybrid output, and wherein the combiner output is provided to detection circuitry (197).

First claim

What is claimed:

1. An apparatus comprising:
an antenna configured to receive a signal from a global navigation satellite system, wherein the antenna includes a first feed and a second feed;
a hybrid coupler including a first hybrid input, a second hybrid input, a first hybrid output, a second hybrid output, wherein the first hybrid input is coupled to the first feed, the second hybrid input is coupled to the second feed, and wherein the first hybrid output provides as a first output a right hand circularly polarized signal formed based on a horizontally polarized signal and a vertically polarized signal detected at the antenna, wherein the second hybrid output provides as a second output a left hand circularly polarized signal formed based on the horizontally polarized signal and the vertically polarized signal detected at the antenna;
a variable phase shifter including a shifter input and a shifter output, wherein when the apparatus is in a second mode, the shifter input is coupled via a switch to the first hybrid output providing as the first output the right hand circularly polarized signal, wherein the variable phase shifter is configured to induce a phase shift in the right hand circularly polarized signal; and
a combiner including a first combiner input, a second combiner input, and a combiner output,
wherein when the apparatus is in a first mode, the first hybrid output is coupled, via the switch to detection circuitry, to provide the right hand circularly polarized signal to the detection circuitry and the second hybrid output providing the left hand circularly polarized signal is coupled, via the switch, to a terminator, and
wherein, when in apparatus is in a second mode configured to detect a presence of a spoof signal not transmitted by the global navigation satellite system or to suppress the spoof signal, the first combiner input is coupled, via the switch, to the shifter output providing the right hand circularly polarized signal with the induced phase shift, and the second combiner input is coupled, via the switch, to the second hybrid output providing as the second output the left hand circularly polarized signal, wherein the combiner output represents a combined right hand circularly polarized signal and left hand circularly polarized signal, wherein the combiner output is provided to the detection circuitry configured to detect the presence of the spoof signal not transmitted by the global navigation satellite system or configured to suppress the spoof signal.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the antenna comprises a GPS antenna.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the hybrid coupler comprises a 90 degree hybrid coupler.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the combiner comprises at least one of a power combiner and/or a Wilkinson combiner.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising:
controller circuitry configured to change an operating mode of the apparatus from the first mode for receiving signals transmitted by a GPS satellite to at least the second mode to detect the spoof signal and/or steer a null to suppress the spoof signal.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein when apparatus is in the second mode, the detection circuitry is configured to detect, in the combined right hand circularly polarized signal and left hand circularly polarized signal, a first amplitude of a first ripple in a first carrier to noise magnitude of the combined right hand circularly polarized signal and left hand circularly polarized signal and detect a second amplitude in a second ripple in the second carrier to noise magnitude of the combined right hand circularly polarized signal and left hand circularly polarized signal, wherein when the first amplitude is greater than the second amplitude, the detection circuitry determines the spoof signal is present in the received signal.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the detection circuitry is configured to detect at least a maximum C/N 0 .

8. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the detection circuitry is configured to detect at least a minimum C/N 0 and steer.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the detection circuitry is configured to detect at least a phase offset of the maximum C/N 0 .

10. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the detection circuitry is configured to detect at least a phase offset of the minimum C/N 0 .

11. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first amplitude and the second amplitude are detected over a period of time associated with the variable phase shifter, the period of time associated with one revolution of the variable phase shifter.

Assignees

• Univ Leland Stanford Junior

Inventors

• Mcmilin Emily
• De Lorenzo David S
• Enge Per K
• Akos Dennis M

Classifications

• H04K3/228

  Elimination in the received signal of jamming or of data corrupted by jamming (interference suppression in receivers H04B1/10) · CPC title

• H04K2203/32

  including a particular configuration of antennas · CPC title

• G01S19/21

  Interference related issues {; Issues related to cross-correlation, spoofing or other methods of denial of service} · CPC title

• H04K2203/22

  for communication related to vehicles · CPC title

• H04K3/28

  with jamming and anti-jamming mechanisms both included in a same device or system, e.g. wherein anti-jamming includes prevention of undesired self-jamming resulting from jamming · CPC title