Automated system for measurement and characterization of planar active arrays

This work has been focused to describe the development and implementation of an automated system for measurement and characterization of planar active arrays. This automated system is capable of reducing time and operative cost and it is based on multilayer hardware architecture and the control software. The motivation of this work is the calibration of one triangular active array panel of the Geodesic Antenna Array GEODA. The measurements and characterization are complicated and multipart tasks in the design, development and calibration of active antenna arrays. In this paper an automated system is presented supported by measurements and characterization of one planar active array.