An Automated System for Measuring Electric Field Distributions Within a Vehicle

Author

Low, Lester ; Hui Zhang ; Rigelsford, J.M. ; Langley, Richard J. ; Ruddle, Alastair R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Volume

55

Issue

1

fYear

2013

fDate

Feb. 2013

Firstpage

3

Lastpage

12

Abstract

An automated, low-field disturbance probe positioning system for measuring 3-D electric field distributions inside vehicles or similar resonant environments is described. Correlations between measured and simulated electric field distributions for a simple rectangular cavity demonstrate that the probe positioner has little impact on the measured field levels. Comparisons between measurements and simulations for a real vehicle indicate that the predicted field population distributions are within the estimated uncertainties of the measurements.

Keywords

automatic testing; automobile industry; electric field measurement; measurement uncertainty; road vehicles; 3D electric field distribution measurement; automated low-field disturbance probe positioning system; automated system; measurement uncertainty estimation; rectangular cavity; resonant environments; vehicle; Cavity resonators; Electric variables measurement; Frequency measurement; Position measurement; Probes; Solid modeling; Vehicles; Electric field measurement; electromagnetic field simulation; field probe positioning system; vehicle;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electromagnetic Compatibility, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9375

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TEMC.2012.2209655

Filename

6263293