DocumentCode :
611628
Title :
Design of an ultra-wideband monocone circular antenna array for vehicle-integrated industrial local positioning applications
Author :
Gardill, Markus ; Fischer, Georg ; Weigel, Robert ; Koelpin, Alexander
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Electron. Eng., Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
fYear :
2013
fDate :
8-12 April 2013
Firstpage :
2211
Lastpage :
2215
Abstract :
We present the design of a vehicle-roof-integrated wideband circular antenna array for industrial local positioning applications. The array is designed for Direction-of-Arrival estimation in a novel ultra-wideband secondary FMCW radar system operating in the 5 GHz - 8 GHz frequency range. A novel size-reduced, mechanically robust, and application-ready monocone antenna with more than 120 % impedance bandwidth is proposed as basis element for array design, which allows for arbitrary array geometries based on a λlow/2 grid spacing. We show measurement results and the characterization of a four-element circular array.
Keywords :
CW radar; FM radar; Global Positioning System; antenna arrays; direction-of-arrival estimation; ultra wideband antennas; DOA; UWB antenna; application-ready antenna; arbitrary array geometries; direction-of-arrival estimation; four-element circular array; frequency 5 GHz to 8 GHz; grid spacing; impedance bandwidth; secondary FMCW radar system; ultrawideband monocone circular antenna array design; vehicle-integrated industrial local positioning applications; vehicle-roof-integrated antenna array; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Arrays; Direction-of-arrival estimation; Ultra wideband antennas; Antenna Array; Monocone Antenna; Ultra-Wideband;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2013 7th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Gothenburg
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2187-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-88-907018-1-8
Type :
conf
Filename :
6546684
Link To Document :
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