A simulation tool for design and analysis of planar antenna arrays

Author

Greda, L.A. ; Walstra, A. ; Heckler, M.V.T. ; Dreher, A.

Author_Institution

German Aerosp. Center, Inst. of Commun. & Navig., Wessling

fYear

2008

fDate

5-11 July 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

For the design and analysis of planar antenna arrays the simulation tool SEQAR based on MATLAB^reg has been developed. With the help of single element radiation patterns from simulations with commercial software or measurements it offers the possibility of beamforming and beamsteering with arbitrarily rotated elements in a wide range of array configurations. The integrated array editor allows the fast and easy assembly of antenna arrays. Both big arrays and arrays with non-uniform spacing can be efficiently designed and analyzed. Mutual coupling between the antenna elements can be taken into account and its undesired effects alleviated by decoupling plalgorithms.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; beam steering; mathematics computing; planar antenna arrays; MATLAB; SEQAR; beamforming; beamsteering; integrated array editor; mutual coupling; nonuniform spacing; planar antenna arrays; simulation tool; single element radiation patterns; Analytical models; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Array signal processing; Assembly; MATLAB; Planar arrays; Rotation measurement; Software measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2008. AP-S 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2041-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2042-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2008.4619520

Filename

4619520