Wirelessly Automated Reconfigurable Antenna With Directional Selectivity

IEEE Access

Joseph Costantine¹  Youssef Tawk²  Fadi Makhlouf²  Maria Nassif²  Leonel Geagea²  Christos G. Christodoulou³ 

[1] Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon;Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Notre Dame University-Louaize, Zouk Mikael, Lebanon;Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA;

关键词: Directive antenna;    microcontroller;    pattern diversity;    reconfigurable antenna;    software control;   

DOI  :  10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2650203

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In this paper, a frequency reconfigurable antenna system with a directional selectivity is presented. The reconfiguration of the antenna's radiation characteristics is wirelessly controlled through a mobile phone and a microcontroller. The antenna system is a multi-element radiator composed of four monopoles on top of a hexagonal ground plane, in addition to four rectangular microstrip two-elements antenna arrays. The monopoles and the microstrip arrays are designed to contribute to the communication requirements of the complete system. The position, orientation, and topology of the various antennas are optimized to achieve the required frequency reconfigurability in addition to the variable selective directivity performance. The whole system is fabricated and integrated in a single compact unit controlled by a microcontroller, four servo motors, and a Bluetooth module. The antenna system is tested and the measured results confirm the validity of the proposed design.

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