TY - JOUR
T1 - A Super-Formula-based compact ultra-wideband antenna and its application to indoor real-time positioning systems
AU - Yang, Kansheng
AU - Song, Zhe
AU - Gielis, Johan
AU - Caratelli, Diego
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors. Microwave and Optical Technology Letters published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.
PY - 2022/11
Y1 - 2022/11
N2 - A Super-Formula-based compact ultra-wideband (UWB) printed monopole antenna is proposed in this paper. The presented design is implemented by using inexpensive FR-4 laminates, and is optimized so as to enable excellent radio frequency performance in terms of impedance matching, realized gain, total efficiency, radiation pattern characteristics, maximal group delay variation, and system fidelity factor (SFF), while covering the Federal Communications Commission UWB channel 5, from 6.24 to 6.74 GHz, and channel 9, from 7.74 to 8.24 GHz. The proposed antenna solution has been characterized both passively and actively using a commercially available indoor real-time positioning system, which relies on the phase-difference-of-arrival algorithm. The collected measurement results demonstrate the high accuracy in real-time positioning achieved with the developed antenna both in terms of distance and angle.
AB - A Super-Formula-based compact ultra-wideband (UWB) printed monopole antenna is proposed in this paper. The presented design is implemented by using inexpensive FR-4 laminates, and is optimized so as to enable excellent radio frequency performance in terms of impedance matching, realized gain, total efficiency, radiation pattern characteristics, maximal group delay variation, and system fidelity factor (SFF), while covering the Federal Communications Commission UWB channel 5, from 6.24 to 6.74 GHz, and channel 9, from 7.74 to 8.24 GHz. The proposed antenna solution has been characterized both passively and actively using a commercially available indoor real-time positioning system, which relies on the phase-difference-of-arrival algorithm. The collected measurement results demonstrate the high accuracy in real-time positioning achieved with the developed antenna both in terms of distance and angle.
KW - antenna design
KW - real-time positioning
KW - Super-Formula
KW - ultra-wideband (UWB)
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U2 - 10.1002/mop.33418
DO - 10.1002/mop.33418
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85135046077
SN - 0895-2477
VL - 64
SP - 2103
EP - 2109
JO - Microwave and Optical Technology Letters
JF - Microwave and Optical Technology Letters
IS - 11
ER -