Design and derivation of the dual transponder carrier ranging system

Ming-chen ZHAO; Chun-hui WANG; Zhong-he JIN

doi:10.1631/jzus.C1200266

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Design and derivation of the dual transponder carrier ranging system

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- Design and derivation of the dual transponder carrier ranging system
- Design and derivation of the dual transponder carrier ranging system
- Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering Vol. 14, Issue 5, Pages: 383-394(2013)
- Affiliations：
  
  Department of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
- Author bio：
  
  [ "Ming-chen ZHAO, E-mail: doublefish@zju.edu.cn" ]
  Chun-hui WANG, E-mail: hytgwch@zju.edu.cn
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1631/jzus.C1200266
  CLC： TN927
- Received：17 September 2012，
  
  Revised：2013-;4-17，
  
  Published：2013-05
- Accepted：
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Ming-chen ZHAO, Chun-hui WANG, Zhong-he JIN. Design and derivation of the dual transponder carrier ranging system[J]. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2013, 14(5): 383-394.
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Ming-chen ZHAO, Chun-hui WANG, Zhong-he JIN. Design and derivation of the dual transponder carrier ranging system[J]. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2013, 14(5): 383-394. DOI： 10.1631/jzus.C1200266.

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The accuracy of microwave ranging is mainly limited by the frequency instability of the oscillator that generates the carrier phase signal. A dual transponder carrier ranging method is used to minimize the oscillator noise by combining the reference and the to-and-fro measurements. This ranging approach together with pseudo-noise ranging or other means can be used to measure the inter-satellite distance with a high precision. The pseudo-noise ranging system or other ranging systems help to solve the integer circles while the dual transponder ranging system guarantees the accurate fractional circle. The two satellites work in the master-slave mode. The range measurements are derived on the master satellite while the slave satellite just coherently transfers the received signal

so that the dual transponder ranging system does not need to rely on the time tagging system to synchronize the two satellites. This study first describes the dual transponder carrier ranging system and shows how the system removes most of the oscillator noise components effectively. Then

a detailed design scheme on the frequency planning of the ranging system is presented and the supporting analysis illustrates the feasibility of this system. Based on the design innovation

a laboratory demonstration system is assembled to verify the realizability of the dual transponder ranging system. The experimental results demonstrate that a high level of accuracy (about 30 μm under laboratory circumstance) can be achieved by the use of the proposed dual transponder carrier ranging system.

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