A Dual-Polarized Tapered Slot Antenna for UAV-Based Collection of Locally Coherent Field Data

Azhar, Arslan; Eibert, Thomas F.

doi:10.23919/eucap51087.2021.9411166

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“…[6] has demonstrated the viability of a transmitting drone with a gimbal‐mounted steerable probe antenna and system control electronics. Compact 10 MHz to 15 GHz dual synthesised source modules of dimension (90 × 50 × 19)mm are commercially available [27] and suitable probe antennas include dual Vivaldi [28], tapered slot [29], or broadband biconical [30].…”

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“…The work of Culotta-Lopez et al [6] has demonstrated the viability of a transmitting drone with a gimbal-mounted steerable probe antenna and system control electronics. Compact 10 MHz to 15 GHz dual synthesised source modules of dimension (90 � 50 � 19) mm are commercially available [27] and suitable probe antennas include dual Vivaldi [28], tapered slot [29], or broadband biconical [30]. Ground-based system: REF antennas should offer a broad radiation pattern with stable phase performance and so circularly polarised antennas of the type used for GPS ground terminals are suitable to receive the linearly polarised drone-based probe signal, see for example, Ref.…”

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“…As stated in Ref. [29] the desired drone‐based probe shall be dual‐polarised, broadband, light in weight, mechanically stable, compact in size, least affected by wind and electromagnetically insensitive to the UAV, and this reference proposes a very suitable tapered slot probe antenna design. As stated in Section 2, we propose that the drone‐based probe antenna will always point towards the AUT using a tracking system [6], so probe compensation is limited to polarisation alignment in the NF/FF process.…”

Section: A Matlab Simulation Of the Drone Measurement Systemmentioning

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Untethered near‐field drone‐based antenna measurement system for microwave frequencies using multiple reference antennas for phase and drone location recovery

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Gregson

Brown

2022

IET Microwaves Antenna & Prop

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The simulation of a novel drone-based near-field (NF)/far-field (FF) antenna measurement system enabling the reconstruction of Antenna Under Test (AUT) phase and the true location of the untethered drone using multiple land-based reference antennas is described. The mathematical approach follows the principle used within Global Positioning System (GPS) position and time recovery. Conceptually, the satellites are replaced by ground-based reference antennas of known location, the user location is now the drone location and the user clock offset is replaced by the unknown AUT phase radiated at the angle subtended between the AUT and drone location. This addresses the need for drone-based NF/FF antenna measurement of large in situ VHF/UHF antenna arrays plus the need to measure the installed performance of microwave antennas on structures such as buildings, aircraft and ships. To assess the viability, a computer simulation of the measurement system is constructed and its performance is analysed in terms of the accuracy of reconstruction of the AUT phase and true drone location, as well as the NF/FF radiation pattern accuracy in terms of the equivalent multipath level (EMPL). An example measurement 'range', comprising AUT location and six fixed reference antennas, demonstrates a wide AUT operating bandwidth of (0.5-2) GHz, with EMPL < −50 dB over the forward hemisphere.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Section: A Matlab Simulation Of the Drone Measurement Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Drone-based Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%