{"title":"Miniaturized Wilkinson Power Divider with DC Isolation","authors":"Sichen Xie, H. Hayashi","doi":"10.23919/PIERS.2018.8597782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PIERS.2018.8597782","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a miniaturized Wilkinson power divider with DC isolation. By using parallel coupled lines, we can achieve DC isolation while maintaining good RF bandwidth. We compare the proposed design with the previously proposed design. The measurement results of the fabricated Wilkinson power divider exhibit good isolation and return losses at the frequency range between 1.6 GHz and 2.2 GHz.","PeriodicalId":355217,"journal":{"name":"2018 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS-Toyama)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125421127","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":"Integration of Heterogeneous InSAR Measurements for Mapping Complete and Accurate Three-Dimensional Surface Displacements: A Case Study of 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaiköura Earthquake, New Zealand","authors":"J. Hu, J.H. Liu, L. X. Wu, Z. W. Li, Q. Sun","doi":"10.23919/PIERS.2018.8597791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PIERS.2018.8597791","url":null,"abstract":"Three-dimensional (3-D) deformation fields associated with the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaiköura earthquake in New Zealand are retrieved from SAR data acquired by ALOS-2 descending and Sentinel-1 ascending orbits based on the Pixel OffsetTracking technique In particular, a recently proposed method SM-VCE (Strain Model and Variance Component Estimation) is exploited to integrate the heterogeneous InSAR observations. The core idea of this method is exploiting the spatial correlation of the homogeneous points' deformations based on strain model, and determine the exact weights for the heterogeneous InSAR measurements by employing variance component estimation algorithm. The results reveal that the presented SM-VCE method is capable for the retrieval of complete and accurate 3-D deformation fields with respect to this event, which are highly consistent with the GNSS observations. In addition, accuracies of the used heterogeneous InSAR observations as well as the estimated 3-D deformations are quantitatively provided by the presented SM-VCE method.","PeriodicalId":355217,"journal":{"name":"2018 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS-Toyama)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125646050","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}
S. Ishii, S. Shinde, R. P. Sugavaneshwar, M. Kaur, T. Nagao
{"title":"Harvesting Sunlight with Titanium Nitride Nanostructures","authors":"S. Ishii, S. Shinde, R. P. Sugavaneshwar, M. Kaur, T. Nagao","doi":"10.23919/PIERS.2018.8598236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PIERS.2018.8598236","url":null,"abstract":"Titanium nitride (TiN) nanostructure shows broad optical resonance that covers the majority of solar spectrum. By taking advantage of this resonance, i.e., surface plasmon resonance, we demonstrate that TiN nanostructures can efficiently harvest sunlight for internal photoemission and photothermal conversion. Some of the applications of TiN nanostructures include visible active photocatalysis and solar water evaporation. Since TiN has been used in industries, the use of TiN is practical, motiving the application oriented research for solar energy harvesting.","PeriodicalId":355217,"journal":{"name":"2018 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS-Toyama)","volume":"167 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125979128","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":"Direction of Arrival Error for Localization Procedure of Sources with Directional Antenna","authors":"J. Kelner, C. Ziółkowski, L. Nowosielski","doi":"10.23919/PIERS.2018.8598174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PIERS.2018.8598174","url":null,"abstract":"Most methods of radio emission source localization are based on an estimation of received signal parameters. Evaluation of signal reception direction is used in a method called a direction of arrival (DOA). The DOA is one of the most commonly used location methods in wireless systems. Its important advantage is independence from knowledge of a time-frequency structure of the received signal. Therefore, this method is used primarily in military radio reconnaissance systems and electronic warfare. In this paper, we evaluate errors in determining the DOA resulting from propagation phenomena occurring in an urbanized environment. A maximum power received from a given direction is the basis for the estimation of the DOA in most radio direction-finders. Thus, the direction of maximum radiation of the localized object is important because it causes a change of the extremum in a power azimuth spectrum (PAS). Simulation studies are the basis for assessing the DOA error for the transmitters with the directional antennas. To model the impact of propagation phenomena, a multi-elliptical model is used. This model considers the majority of propagation phenomena occurring in the urbanized environment. The possibility of considering patterns of the transmitting and receiving antenna is its important advantage. In this case, the Gaussian is used to model the pattern of the directional antennas. The assessment of the DOA error is carried out for non-line-of-sight conditions between the receiver and transmitter, i.e., the radio direction-finder and localized object, respectively. In simulation studies, the influence of the transmitting antenna parameters, i.e., its beamwidth and direction of maximum radiation, on a shape of the received PASs and their extremums is considered.","PeriodicalId":355217,"journal":{"name":"2018 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS-Toyama)","volume":"242 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115965633","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":"High Stability Tracking with Sparse Location Information","authors":"Yangpu Cao, Yuan Chen, Yaoran Sun, Sailing He","doi":"10.23919/PIERS.2018.8597683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PIERS.2018.8597683","url":null,"abstract":"Modern trackers based on traditional image processing or machine learning have made great progress in recent years but still face the problem of error tracking. To make use of these trackers with less error tracking, we propose to combine the object detection and the object localization technology together in our tracking system. The object localization technology can get the positions of moving objects in real time but suffers from low precision, which can compensate this with the modern object detection of high accuracy. The object detection based on deep learning, such as Faster RCNN, which achieves excellent object detection accuracy on PASCAL VOC 2007, 2012 datasets with 300 proposals per image, can get 43 mAP on COCO detection dataset. Object localization devices such as a UWB module will provide us real-time locations of multi-objects with the precision of about 30 cm. These locations can be transformed into pixel coordinates. OpenCV also play an important role in our experiment for providing useful API for camera calibration, coordinate transformation, tracking and so on. With the support of the tools mentioned above, we can develop the state-of-the-art trackers. The major part of the tracker is Long-term Correlation Tracking (LCT). Besides, we provide position information and detection results of our interested objects and try to match them to get reliable positions. By matching the target location from the image tracker and the UWB device, error tracking will be corrected when occurred. The proposed system gives more stable results than existing trackers such as Kernelized Correlation Filters (KCF). This will be helpful for the application scenarios require stable and accurate tracking.","PeriodicalId":355217,"journal":{"name":"2018 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS-Toyama)","volume":"746 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132126011","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}
Y. Yasyukevich, I. Zhivetiev, A. Kiselev, I. Edemskiy, S. V. Syrovatsky, A. S. Shabalin, A. Vesnin
{"title":"Tool for Creating Maps of GNSS Total Electron Content Variations","authors":"Y. Yasyukevich, I. Zhivetiev, A. Kiselev, I. Edemskiy, S. V. Syrovatsky, A. S. Shabalin, A. Vesnin","doi":"10.23919/PIERS.2018.8597604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PIERS.2018.8597604","url":null,"abstract":"In the recent years, a significant amount of the measurements of the Earth's ionosphere state has been made by medium- and high-orbit global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) such as GLONASS, GPS, Galileo, Beidou, SBAS, etc. Currently, a number of services (such as IGS, UNAVCO, CHAIN, CORS, etc.) provide GNSS data in open access in the RINEX format. The databases start from early 1990s. Currently more than 5700 GNSS sites provide ~ 1.5 Gb daily which is 200 millions independent data points. The software tools to deal with such amount of data become necessary to do research effectively. We have developed System for the Ionosphere Monitoring and Researching from GNSS (SIMuRG) for organizing RINEX data and analyzing results from geophysical research view point. This paper describes approaches to create SIMURG, as well as the opportunities that the system can provide to the scientific community.","PeriodicalId":355217,"journal":{"name":"2018 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS-Toyama)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129986337","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}
S. S. Olokede, C. J. Okonkwo, C. A. Adamariko, O. Oniyide, M. F. Ain
{"title":"A 10 GHz Oscillator Based on the Principle of Negative Resistance","authors":"S. S. Olokede, C. J. Okonkwo, C. A. Adamariko, O. Oniyide, M. F. Ain","doi":"10.23919/PIERS.2018.8597753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PIERS.2018.8597753","url":null,"abstract":"A Ka-band oscillator based on the principle of negative resistance is analyzed and modelled. A novel stable frequency source based on balanced parallel-coupled dielectric resonator feedback system is devised to achieve considerable spectral purity and good power output at the target ka-band resonance. Dual negative conductance feedbacks are configured to model a compensation technique to establish excellent geometric parameters with respect to the resonant frequency affinity based on the configured compensation technique. The derived equivalent circuit is modelled using advanced design system (ADS)software and subsequently realized. A reasonable level of agreement is observed between the simulated and measured values with measured phase noise of −81.03 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz offset and resonance ($T$ E01)of 10 GHz.","PeriodicalId":355217,"journal":{"name":"2018 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS-Toyama)","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130160906","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":"A Triple-Band Monopole Antenna with Dual-Polarization Characteristics","authors":"Ting Wu, Ming-jun Wang, X. Ke, Jiao Wang","doi":"10.23919/PIERS.2018.8597893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PIERS.2018.8597893","url":null,"abstract":"A novel and compact triple-band Y-shaped monopole antenna with dual polarization characteristics for WLAN and WiMAX applications is proposed. The antenna mainly comprises a partial ground with two rectangle slots in the center, a microstrip-fed Y-shaped radiating patch that consists of two unequal monopole arms with a middle monopole embedded. The antenna structure is extremely simple and occupies small space. Experimental datas show that the antenna can provide three separate impedance bandwidths of 371 MHz (centered at 2.4 GHz), 50 MHz (centered at 3.5 GHz) and 2790 MHz (centered at 5.8 GHz). In addition, the antenna is circularly polarized in the operating bands (2.365-2.57 GHz and 5.73-6.07 GHz). Furthermore, the antenna shows monopole-like radiation patterns and stable antenna gains across the three operating bands, making it suitable for WLAN and WiMAX practical applications.","PeriodicalId":355217,"journal":{"name":"2018 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS-Toyama)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130431020","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":"Investigation of Kalman Filter-KF-Application on a Quasi-Newtonian - QN - Algorithm for Photovoltaic Maximum Power Point Detection - MPPT","authors":"J. D. de Carvalho, L. Kretly","doi":"10.23919/PIERS.2018.8597694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PIERS.2018.8597694","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this work is to investigate the application of Kalman Filters to the estimation of parameters of a Quasi-Newtonian (QN) algorithm in the photovoltaic analysis to improve the Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT). Recent work in PV-MPPT [1], demonstrate the applicability of double Kalman Filter to PV-MPPT. In this work, we implement a simulation worksheet of a Kalmar Filter (KF) to identify some improvement on the QN algorithm. The QN algorithm is a powerful method of optimization of convex curves, which is the case of the power curve of a solar module when applied to controlled conditions of temperature and weather. But, there is a distortion of the curve that is made by random processes such temperature changes and shadowing. The objective is to apply the KF to estimate the noise provoked by those processes to obtain a rapid convergence of the algorithm and to mitigate the oscillation around the Maximum Power Point (MPP). The basic idea behind this strategy is to analyze the viability of this method by an implementation and simulation of the convergence time and the oscillation around the MPP using MATLAB.","PeriodicalId":355217,"journal":{"name":"2018 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS-Toyama)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134054254","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":"A Fast FE-BI Method for the Computation of Monostatic Radar Cross Section","authors":"T. Wan, M. Z. Li, B. Tang","doi":"10.23919/PIERS.2018.8597740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PIERS.2018.8597740","url":null,"abstract":"Finite element-boundary integral (FE-BI) is an efficient method to analyze electromagnetic scattering problems in an open region since it combines the advantages of the finite element method and integral equation method. The FE-BI method yields a partly sparse and partly dense matrix equation, which is often solved by iterative solvers. In this paper, a fast direct solver is presented to generate an efficient FE-BI method for computing the monostatic RCS. Based on the hierarchical matrix (H-matrix) algorithm, the proposed direct solver can reduce the computational complexity and memory requirements to be almost linear. For multiple excitation problems, one only needs to perform the H-matrix substitution while the H-LU decomposition only needs to be performed once. Numerical examples of the computation of the monostatic RCS for a scattering problem are presented.","PeriodicalId":355217,"journal":{"name":"2018 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS-Toyama)","volume":"11 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134525481","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}