Calibration method and communications device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11309977-B2
Application number	US-202017111319-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 3, 2020
Priority date	Sep 4, 2018
Publication date	Apr 19, 2022
Grant date	Apr 19, 2022

Abstract

Embodiments of the present application relate to the communications field and disclose a calibration method and a communications device, capable of compensating for measured amplitude and phase results. The method includes determining a position error of each of the N antenna groups, and then determining an actual position of the antenna group based on a target position of the antenna group and the position error of the antenna group. A phase compensation value and/or an amplitude compensation value of the antenna group are determined for a target probe of the second device based on the actual position of the antenna group. Based on the phase compensation value and/or the amplitude compensation value of the antenna group, compensating is performed for a phase result and/or an amplitude result that are/is obtained by the target probe of the second device by measuring a signal transmitted by the antenna group.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A calibration method, applied to an antenna array amplitude-phase calibration system, wherein the antenna array amplitude-phase calibration system comprises a first device, a second device, and a third device connected to the first device and the second device, wherein the first device comprises N antenna groups, wherein N is an integer greater than 1, wherein the second device comprises at least three probes, wherein a distance between the first device and each of the at least three probes is less than a far field boundary distance, and wherein the calibration method comprises:
determining, by the third device, a position error of each of the N antenna groups;
for each of the N antenna groups, determining, by the third device, an actual position of an antenna group based on a target position of the antenna group and the position error of the antenna group, and determining, by the third device, at least one of a phase compensation value or an amplitude compensation value of the antenna group for a target probe based on the actual position of the antenna group, wherein the target probe is any one of the at least three probes; and
for each of the N antenna groups, at least one of the following:
compensating, by the third device based on the phase compensation value of the antenna group, for a phase result that is obtained by the target probe by measuring a signal transmitted by the antenna group, to calibrate a phase of the signal transmitted by the antenna group; or
compensating, based on the amplitude compensation value of the antenna group, for an amplitude result that is obtained by the target probe by measuring the signal transmitted by the antenna group, to calibrate an amplitude of the signal transmitted by the antenna group.

2. The calibration method according to claim 1 , wherein the determining, by the third device, the position error of each of the N antenna groups comprises:
determining a target antenna group set, wherein the target antenna group set comprises some of the N antenna groups, or the target antenna group set comprises the N antenna groups;
obtaining a phase difference corresponding to each antenna group in the target antenna group set, wherein the phase difference corresponding to the antenna group is a difference between phases when the signal transmitted by the antenna group reaches any two of the at least three probes;
for each antenna group in the target antenna group set, calculating, a measured wave path difference of the antenna group based on the phase difference corresponding to the antenna group, wherein the measured wave path difference corresponding to the antenna group is a difference between wave paths when the signal transmitted by the antenna group reaches any two of the at least three probes; and
determining the position error of each of the N antenna groups based on the measured wave path differences corresponding to all the antenna groups in the target antenna group set.

3. The calibration method according to claim 2 , wherein the calculating, by the third device, a measured wave path difference of the antenna group based on the phase difference corresponding to the antenna group specifically comprises:
calculating the measured wave path difference d i corresponding to the antenna group based on d i =φ i ×λ÷360, wherein φ i is a i th phase difference corresponding to the antenna group in degrees; λ is a wavelength of the signal transmitted by the antenna group; and i is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

4. The calibration method according to claim 3 , wherein the determining, by the third device, the position error of each of the N antenna groups based on the measured wave path differences corresponding to all the antenna groups in the target antenna group set specifically comprises:
for each antenna group in the target antenna group set, determining a predicted position error of the antenna group;
determining a predicted wave path difference corresponding to the antenna group based on the predicted position error of the antenna group;
substituting the measured wave path difference corresponding to each antenna group in the target antenna group set and the predicted wave path difference corresponding to each antenna group in the target antenna group set into an objective function; and
using the position error of an optimal solution when the objective function obtains a minimum value as the position error of each of the N antenna groups, wherein the objective function is used to represent a difference between the predicted wave path difference corresponding to the antenna group and the measured wave path difference corresponding to the antenna group, and the larger the difference between the predicted wave path difference corresponding to the antenna group and the measured wave path difference corresponding to the antenna group, the larger a value of the objective function.

5. The calibration method according to claim 4 , wherein the objective function is:
E ( x 1 ,x 2 . . . x k )=Σ i=1 M ( G i −F i ( x 1 ,x 2 . . . x k )) 2 /M , wherein

the predicted position errors of the antenna array of the first device in k dimensions are x 1 , x 2 . . . x k , an antenna array comprises the N antenna groups, an M is a quantity of antenna groups in the target antenna group set, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to N, and G i is the measured wave path difference corresponding to a i th antenna group in an M antenna groups, and F i (x 1 , x 2 . . . x k ) is a predicted wave path difference corresponding to the i th antenna group in the M antenna groups, wherein i is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

6. The calibration method according to claim 1 , wherein the compensating, by the third device based on the phase compensation value of the antenna group, for a phase result that is obtained by the target probe by measuring a signal transmitted by the antenna group, to calibrate a phase of the signal transmitted by the antenna group comprises:
determining a wave path of the signal transmitted by the antenna group to the target probe based on the actual position of the antenna group;
determining the phase of the signal transmitted by the antenna group to the target probe based on the wave path of the signal transmitted by the antenna group to the target probe; and
determining the phase compensation value of the antenna group to the target probe based on the phase of the signal transmitted by the antenna group to the target probe.

7. The calibration method according to claim 1 , wherein the compensating, by the third device based on the amplitude compensation value of the antenna group, for an amplitude result that is obtained by the target probe by measuring a signal transmitted by the antenna group, to calibrate an amplitude of the signal transmitted by the antenna group comprises:
determining an orientation of the antenna group relative to the target probe based on the actual position of the antenna group, determining an amplitude deviation of the signal transmitted by the antenna group from the target probe based on the orientation of the antenna group relative to the target probe, and determining the amplitude compensation value of the antenna group for the target probe based on the amplitude deviation of the signal transmitted by the antenna group from the target probe.

8. The calibration method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
for each of the N antenna groups, compensating, by the third device at least one of following:
based on the phase compensation value of the antenna group, for the phase result that is obtained by the antenna group by receiving a signal transmitted by t

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tang Yi
• Zhang Zhiwei
• Li Feng

Classifications

• H04B17/221

  of receiver antennas, e.g. as to amplitude or phase · CPC title

• H04B17/12 Primary

  of transmit antennas, e.g. of the amplitude or phase · CPC title

• H04B17/21

  for calibration; for correcting measurements · CPC title