Design of an ultra-wideband monocone circular antenna array for vehicle-integrated industrial local positioning applications

Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2013-08-14
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Gardill, Markus  
Fischer, Georg  
Weigel, Robert  
Kölpin, Alexander  orcid-logo
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/6690
Start Page
2211
End Page
2215
Article Number
6546684
Citation
European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP: 6546684 (2013-08-14)
Contribution to Conference
7th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2013  
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84881284420
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.
Subjects
Antenna Array
Monocone Antenna
Ultra-Wideband