Study on a microwave power transmitting system for Mars observation airplane

Author

Nagahama, Akihito ; Mitam, T. ; Shinohara, Naoki ; Tsuji, Naoki ; Fukuda, Keita ; Kanan, Y. ; Yonemoto, Koichi

Author_Institution

Res. Inst. for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan

fYear

2011

Firstpage

63

Lastpage

66

Abstract

The objective of the present study is to develop a microwave power transmitting system for a Mars observation airplane. We suggest a phased array antenna composed of "power-variable phase-controlled magnetrons (PVPCM)" for the transmitting system. We confirmed the PVPCM had proper response speed to chase the airplane. We constructed PVPCMs for a phased array antenna through designing an integrator for a phase locked loop in the PVPCM, and we realized a stable power variation of the PVPCM. We confirmed realization of a phased array antenna with PVPCMs and transmitting power control.

Keywords

Mars; aircraft instrumentation; antenna phased arrays; magnetrons; microwave power transmission; phase locked loops; power control; Mars observation airplane; PVPCM; microwave power transmitting system; phase locked loop; phased array antenna; power control; power-variable phase-controlled magnetrons; Airplanes; Antenna measurements; Arrays; Dipole antennas; Magnetrons; Mars; Phased arrays; Magnetrons; Phase locked loops; Phased arrays;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Workshop Series on Innovative Wireless Power Transmission: Technologies, Systems, and Applications (IMWS), 2011 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Uji, Kyoto

ISSN

2157-362X

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-214-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMWS.2011.5877092

Filename

5877092