Analysis of conformal automobile antennas, theory and experiment

Author

Horiki, Y. ; Walton, E.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

22-27 June 2003

Firstpage

671

Abstract

Intelligent Transport System (ITS) has been required to integrate many types of antennas on an automobile. As a consequence of this trend, theoretical or sub-scale analysis for low cost prediction of antenna characteristics is increasingly used. This paper examines relations between a theoretical testing and a sub/full-scale measurement for development of automobile FM conformal antennas.

Keywords

VHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; antenna testing; automated highways; automotive components; computational electromagnetics; conformal antennas; method of moments; FM antennas; antenna testing; automobile conformal antennas; azimuth gain patterns; electromagnetic surface patch code; gain pattern characteristics; general purpose method of moments; ground plane effect; horizontal polarization; input impedance characteristics; intelligent transport system; metallic model; subscale analysis; tapered gap antenna; vertical polarization; Antenna measurements; Antenna theory; Automobiles; Azimuth; Frequency; Impedance measurement; Intelligent systems; Performance evaluation; Testing; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2003. IEEE

Conference_Location

Columbus, OH, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7846-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2003.1219325

Filename

1219325