AB01: Recent Advances in Antenna Measurement Techniques (1)

Wednesday, August 20  13:40-15:40,  Room #18

Recent advances in practical and theoretical aspects of near as well as far-field antenna measurements. The session spans from small body-area-network antennas where interaction with the measurement system is challenging, over adaptive antennas for which measurement of all states becomes too time-consuming, to large satellite antennas where size and space-functionality may prevent direct measurements. The session also encompasses processing of measurement data, e.g. antenna diagnostics and measurement facility validation.

13:40  AB01.1   DIAGNOSIS TECHNIQUES FOR PLANAR ANTENNAS USING ITERATIVE ALGORITHMS: APPLICATION TO RADIAL LINE SLOT ANTENNAS

M. Sano¹, T. Salmerón², M. Sierra-Castaner², J. Hirokawa¹, M. Ando¹

¹Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
²ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

14:00  AB01.2   ESTIMATION AND VALIDATION OF THE RADIATION PATTERN OF THE MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE ALOMAR RADAR SYSTEM (MAARSY)

T. Renkwitz, G. Stober, J. Chau, R. Latteck

Radar and rocket sounding, Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kuehlungsborn, Germany

14:20  AB01.3   OVER-THE-AIR ASSESSMENT FOR 2-DIMENSIONAL ARRANGEMENT MIMO ARRAY ANTENNAS

K. Li, K. Honda, K. Ogawa

Graduate School of Engineering, Toyama University, Toyama, Japan

14:40  AB01.4   ANALYSIS OF INFLUENCE OF ARRAY PLANE ERROR ON PERFORMANCES OF HEXAGONAL PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS

C. Wang^1,2, M. Kang¹, B. Duan¹, W. Wang¹, M. Wang¹, Q. Tu³

¹Key Laboratory of Electronic Equipment Structure Design, Ministry of Education, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
²Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
³Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

15:00  AB01.5   DETERMINING THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL PHASE CENTRE OF AN ANTENNA

Y. Chen, R. G. Vaughan

School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

15:20  AB01.6   ANTENNA RADIATION PATTERN MEASUREMENT USING AN UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV)

F. Ustuner¹, E. Aydemir², E. Güleç³, M. Ilarslan³, M. Çelebi³, E. Demirel¹

¹TUBITAK UME, Kocaeli, Turkey
²Electronics Engineering, Turkish Air Force Academy, Istanbul, Turkey
³Aeronautics and Space Technologies Institute, Turkish Air Force Academy, Istanbul, Turkey