Design and analysis of an antenna array system for communication using high-altitude platforms

• Autor(a) principal: Magalhães, Marcelo Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIPAMPA
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.unipampa.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/riu/1988
• topic: CNPQ::ENGENHARIAS; Engenharia elétrica; Antenas; Serviços de comunicações móveis; Rede de antenas em microfita; Electrical engineering; Antenna; Mobile communication services; Microstrip antenna array

This thesis presents the design and analysis of an antenna array system for mobile communication services in a scenario using high altitude platforms (HAPs). For this purpose, a dual-band and dual-polarized microstrip antenna array has been designed, whereby the array should receive the signal in one band and resend it in the other operating band. These requirements have been fulfilled by using a stacked arrangement, whereby each patch has been fed by independent feed lines. Circular polarization was obtained by the use of square patches with truncated corners. Optimizations were needed so as to compensate the effects of mutual coupling on the axial ratio level. To perform the radiation pattern synthesis for the transmission function, an algorithm to calculate the required excitation coefficients was employed to steer the main beam and to control the side lobe level. Additionally to the array design, the development of the high-frequency (HF) circuitry for the retransmission is described. The design of the transmitter was done using off-the-shelf components, which have been tested individually prior to the final integration into the final layout. During the tests, the need of knowledge of the electromagnetic properties of the printed circuit layout and the active/passive components is crucial for a successful design. In order to accelerate the development of HF circuitry, a procedure to perform electromagnetic simulations of HF printed circuit boards is proposed. Experimental results demonstrated that this procedure yielded accurate engineering predictions.