{"title":"Verification of a Multi-Beam HF Radar-Embedded Communication System Using a Drone","authors":"S. Henault","doi":"10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133296","url":null,"abstract":"The performance of the hybrid far-field radiated emission design phase-attached radar/communication (FFRED/PARC) approach for simultaneous transmission of radar and communication signals in multiple beams is verified experimentally using a drone and an experimental 64-monopole over-the-horizon radar (OTHR) transmitter. It is demonstrated that very closely separated beams are possible if the transmitter is calibrated correctly in particular for demodulation of secondary beam signals. Excellent power and spectral efficiencies are demonstrated while also verifying the impact on the radar ambiguity function. The approach inherently adds a physical-layer level of communication security and is an attractive option for leveraging costly OTHR installations.","PeriodicalId":103360,"journal":{"name":"2023 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123637599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Graphene-based Radiofrequency resonator for non-invasive glucose detection","authors":"Muhammad Yasir, P. Savi","doi":"10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133428","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a radio-frequency (RF) sensor to detect glucose oxidase. At the core of the proposed approach is a graphene film deposited on a gap connected to a split ring resonator. The graphene film is doctor bladed on the gap. The film is then properly chemically functionalized in order to detect the presence of glucose. In this paper, we validate the proof-of-concept operation of glucose concentration detection by measuring the frequency shift of the transmission coefficient of the sensor.","PeriodicalId":103360,"journal":{"name":"2023 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123684213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Schenone, A. Fedeli, C. Estatico, M. Pastorino, A. Randazzo
{"title":"Identification of Defective Elements in Antenna Arrays Through an Inverse Approach","authors":"V. Schenone, A. Fedeli, C. Estatico, M. Pastorino, A. Randazzo","doi":"10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133355","url":null,"abstract":"An approach for the identification of defective elements in antenna arrays is presented in this paper. Specifically, the diagnostic problem is recast as the solution of an inverse problem, in which information about the excitation coefficients of the array is retrieved starting from measurements of the radiated field. Such an inverse problem is solved, in a regularized sense, using an inversion procedure developed in the framework of Lebesgue spaces. The effectiveness of the method has been numerically evaluated using realistic planar microstrip patch arrays, showing very good detection capabilities.","PeriodicalId":103360,"journal":{"name":"2023 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114109781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surviving the fire: Shallow Underground Radio Communications in Natural Disasters","authors":"Arslan Nizami, H. G. Espinosa, D. V. Thiel","doi":"10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133376","url":null,"abstract":"Current wireless communications technology is vulnerable to major weather events caused by climate change. A buried antenna is resilient during and after fires, floods and strong winds. A low power, 2.4GHz transmitter in a resonant slot cavity buried 10cm between the surface was measured and modelled as a vertically polarized wave at the surface. The technique offers promise for short distance communications during and after fire, flood and storm events.","PeriodicalId":103360,"journal":{"name":"2023 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114626095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"5G-positioning for traffic safety and intelligent intersections","authors":"Mehdi Ashury, J. Nausner, C. Mecklenbräuker","doi":"10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133434","url":null,"abstract":"Fifth generation (5G) of mobile communications enables precise location estimates due to large time-bandwidth products of 5G waveforms and large aperture antenna arrays. In this contribution we discuss and evaluate two hyperbolic approaches to 5G positioning for vehicular applications, namely Friedlander’s method and Chan’s. These may improve the reliability and robustness for position estimates in rural road scenarios compared to estimates from automotive sensor data only. Here, we report on the impact of multipath propagation and cellular network deployment geometry on estimation accuracy and the underlying optimization algorithm has been investigated. Furthermore the results indicate the system requirements for an estimation accuracy for vehicular applications.","PeriodicalId":103360,"journal":{"name":"2023 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114706983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Giordanengo, M. Righero, G. Musacchio Adorisio, F. Mayer, M. Maurer, G. Peters, G. Dassano, R. Maggiora, G. Vecchi, L. Rolo
{"title":"Flexible and Deployable Antenna Measurement System","authors":"G. Giordanengo, M. Righero, G. Musacchio Adorisio, F. Mayer, M. Maurer, G. Peters, G. Dassano, R. Maggiora, G. Vecchi, L. Rolo","doi":"10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133592","url":null,"abstract":"The paper proposes an innovative deployable measurement system for large antennas. By taking advantage of new approaches and technologies to move the probe within a large volume space, the presented system will be really flexible and able to perform conventional Near Field (NF) measurements (i.e., spherical, planar, cylindrical) and non standard scanning surfaces. The proposed approach will exploit a free moving probe system coupled to a laser-tracker and a software solution able to perform Near Field to Far Field transformation that includes also the probe-compensation and phase recovery in a direct way. Preliminary results are provided to show the potentials of the system, through a Near Field data set acquisition, which is then transformed to the Far Field to compare the final antenna performance.","PeriodicalId":103360,"journal":{"name":"2023 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114728937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Use of Compressive Sensing in Efficient Multiscale Stochastic-based Inverse Profiling of Multilayered Subsurface Targets","authors":"M. Hajebi, A. Hoorfar","doi":"10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133788","url":null,"abstract":"A multiresolution electromagnetic inverse scattering algorithm is proposed for reconstruction of multiple objects buried in a multilayered media, using limited amount of data. For tackling this highly nonlinear and ill-posed problem, it is required to combine different inverse profiling modalities. The proposed algorithm starts with using the total variation minimization (TVM) method to locate the objects and roughly estimate their borders. Then, an iterative multi-scale approach (IMSA) is implemented to confine the investigation domain (ID) to the detected objects regions, step by step. Using this approach, the resolution can be enhanced without increasing the number of unknowns. As the inverse solver, the robust stochastic optimization technique of Covariance Matrix Adaption Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) is utilized in each step. The presented numerical results indicate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm in quantitative profiling of multiple objects, using limited amount of data.","PeriodicalId":103360,"journal":{"name":"2023 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114812225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Machine-Learning-Based Optimization Method for Wideband Metasurface Antenna","authors":"Peiqin Liu, Zijue Shan, Zhi Ning Chen","doi":"10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133660","url":null,"abstract":"A machine-learning-based method is proposed for the design of wideband metasurface antenna. The artificial neural network (ANN) algorithm is utilized to build an accurate and efficient neural network model for synthesizing antenna geometry parameters. The proposed metasurface antenna evolves from the Mosaic antenna with uniform patch cells. By dividing the patch cells into fractional pieces, the impedance bandwidth of the proposed antenna is improved. In the proposed neural network, the input data is the target reflection coefficients of the metasurfaces antenna, and the neural network predicts the geometry of patch pieces that satisfy the target performance. A prototype antenna is fabricated and measured to verify the design strategy. Measurement results show that the |S11|<−10-dB impedance bandwidth of the proposed antenna is 32.3% or ranging from 4.98 GHz to 6.90 GHz. Compared to the original Mosaic antenna, the impedance bandwidth of the proposed metasurface antenna improves by 21.5%.","PeriodicalId":103360,"journal":{"name":"2023 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114820575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Millimeter-Wave Switched-Beam Grid-Array Antenna","authors":"Nasimuddin, Zhou Yijun, X. Qing","doi":"10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133782","url":null,"abstract":"An electronic switched-beam grid-array antenna (GAA) at 28.0 GHz is investigated. The proposed antenna panel includes of a sixteen-port GAA integrated with RF switching circuit that consists of five RF switches and a separate control panel. The sixteen beams can be electronically switched/steered with a beam coverage of ±22° and measured antenna gain of >14.0 dBi at 28.0 GHz.","PeriodicalId":103360,"journal":{"name":"2023 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114863892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Urbina, Z. Cucaita, M. Barajas, E. Pineda, M. Pérez, J. Araque
{"title":"Electromagnetic Susceptibility of Implan table Medical Devices: An Experimental Assessment","authors":"R. Urbina, Z. Cucaita, M. Barajas, E. Pineda, M. Pérez, J. Araque","doi":"10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133391","url":null,"abstract":"Electromagnetic waves can cause electronic devices to malfunction unintentionally. Implantable medical devices must be specially designed to be immune to radio frequency interference. Measuring the electric field around an IMD is one approach to determine whether it might malfunction. This paper presents an experimental set-up that emulates the conditions of a medical device implanted inside a human body. Using an electric field probe for liquids, the field around the IMDs is measured. As result, the heat maps around the IMDs are shown, which allows us to infer that at frequencies of 850 MHz there is no reason to consider that the device may have malfunctioned.","PeriodicalId":103360,"journal":{"name":"2023 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114879339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}