A COMPACT MULTIBAND OMNIDIRECTIONAL GNSS ANTENNA FOR ARTILLERY PROJECTILES APPLICATIONS
Author(s) -
Weiwei Liu,
Yufa Sun,
Zhou Dong,
Shaoqi Hu,
Ming Hao Yang
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
progress in electromagnetics research c
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.341
H-Index - 34
ISSN - 1937-8718
DOI - 10.2528/pierc16011202
Subject(s) - gnss applications , artillery , omnidirectional antenna , aerospace engineering , projectile , antenna (radio) , aeronautics , computer science , electrical engineering , engineering , physics , satellite , artificial intelligence , quantum mechanics
A compact multiband omnidirectional antenna for the reception of GNSS signals on artillery projectiles is designed in this paper. The proposed antenna consists of a metallic cone comprising a T-shaped monopole. It exhibits a broad bandwidth from 1.22 GHz to 1.28 GHz and from 1.44 GHz to 1.75 GHz, covering GPS L1, Galileo E2-L1-E1, GLONASS G1 and G2, CNSS B1 and B3. Measured results show that an omnidirectional radiation pattern is achieved, and the non-circularity in the azimuthal plane (xy-plane) is less than 2 dB for all the desired bands. Then the measured 6 dB beamwidth is about 110◦ in the presence of a finite 20 millimeters (mm) radius ground plane. Such an antenna has the potential to be easily used for small artillery projectiles.
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