Antenna arrays for unmanned aerial vehicle

Author

Navarro-Mendez, Diana Veronica ; Hon Ching Moy-Li ; Carrrera-Suarez, Luis Fernando ; Ferrando-Bataller, Miguel ; Baquero-Escudero, Mariano

Author_Institution

DETRI, Escuela Politec. Nac., Quito, Ecuador

fYear

2015

fDate

13-17 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper presents two antenna solutions for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), where the available space for the antenna in the UAV has a cylindrical form. The antennas will operate at 2.45GHz in the Wi-Fi frequency band. The designed antennas are composed by a circular array of four elements conformed to cylindrical shape. A rectangular microstrip patch antenna and a PIFA antenna have been selected as basic the radiating elements of each array. Simulation results show a good matching level at the operating frequency and radiation patterns with a quite omnidirectional behavior for both antenna arrays.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; autonomous aerial vehicles; microstrip antenna arrays; omnidirectional antennas; planar inverted-F antennas; PIFA antenna; UAV; Wi-Fi frequency band; antenna radiation pattern; omnidirectional antenna array; rectangular microstrip patch antenna; unmanned aerial vehicle; Antenna radiation patterns; Gain; Geometry; Microstrip antenna arrays; Microstrip antennas; PIFA antenna; antenna array; conformal antenna; rectangular microstrip antenna; unmanned aerial vehicle;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2015 9th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Type

conf

Filename

7228419