Session Chairs: | Olav Breinbjerg, William Davis |
Recent advances in practical and theoretical aspects of near as well as far-field antenna measurements. The session spans from small body-area-network antennas where interaction with the measurement system is challenging, over adaptive antennas for which measurement of all states becomes too time-consuming, to large satellite antennas where size and space-functionality may prevent direct measurements. The session also encompasses processing of measurement data, e.g. antenna diagnostics and measurement facility validation.
13:40 AB01.1 DIAGNOSIS TECHNIQUES FOR PLANAR ANTENNAS USING ITERATIVE ALGORITHMS: APPLICATION TO RADIAL LINE SLOT ANTENNAS
M. Sano1, T. Salmerón2, M. Sierra-Castaner2, J. Hirokawa1, M. Ando1
1Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
2ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
14:00 AB01.2 ESTIMATION AND VALIDATION OF THE RADIATION PATTERN OF THE MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE ALOMAR RADAR SYSTEM (MAARSY)
T. Renkwitz, G. Stober, J. Chau, R. Latteck
Radar and rocket sounding, Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kuehlungsborn, Germany
14:20 AB01.3 OVER-THE-AIR ASSESSMENT FOR 2-DIMENSIONAL ARRANGEMENT MIMO ARRAY ANTENNAS
K. Li, K. Honda, K. Ogawa
Graduate School of Engineering, Toyama University, Toyama, Japan
14:40 AB01.4 ANALYSIS OF INFLUENCE OF ARRAY PLANE ERROR ON PERFORMANCES OF HEXAGONAL PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS
C. Wang1,2, M. Kang1, B. Duan1, W. Wang1, M. Wang1, Q. Tu3
1Key Laboratory of Electronic Equipment Structure Design, Ministry of Education, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
2Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
3Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
15:00 AB01.5 DETERMINING THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL PHASE CENTRE OF AN ANTENNA
Y. Chen, R. G. Vaughan
School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
15:20 AB01.6 ANTENNA RADIATION PATTERN MEASUREMENT USING AN UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV)
F. Ustuner1, E. Aydemir2, E. Güleç3, M. Ilarslan3, M. Çelebi3, E. Demirel1
1TUBITAK UME, Kocaeli, Turkey
2Electronics Engineering, Turkish Air Force Academy, Istanbul, Turkey
3Aeronautics and Space Technologies Institute, Turkish Air Force Academy, Istanbul, Turkey