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Distributed phased arrays based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm with small antenna elements on each micro-UAV are expected to achieve much better performance than the traditional phased arrays due to a large amount of swarm mobile individuals and deployment flexibility. To avoid the possible collisions of the flying UAVs, a large separation distance between UAVs is required, but grating lobes can appear when the array element spacing is larger than one-half wavelength. To solve this issue, array antennas with aperiodic element placement are normally used to mitigate the grating lobes, while suffering from a high collision risk for UAVs due to the reduced array element separation in the aperiodic array. This paper proposes a novel 3-D aperiodic array design by adding an additional degree of freedom in the optimization of array configuration. The sidelobe levels can be largely reduced from the planar periodic arrays. In addition, the collision risk for UAVs represented by the minimum separation distance between array elements can be largely decreased from the planar aperiodic arrays. This work provides a feasible strategy for the design and optimization of the UAV swarm-based phased arrays for practical applications.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Swarm-Based Distributed Phased Arrays for Grating Lobe Mitigation and Collision Avoidance