Configurable Robotic Millimeter-Wave Antenna facility

Author

Guerrieri, Jeff R. ; Gordon, Josh ; Novotny, David ; Francis, Mike ; Wittmann, Ronald ; Butler, Miranda

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Boulder, CO, USA

fYear

2015

fDate

13-17 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the development of the Configurable Robotic Millimeter-Wave Antenna (CROMMA) facility by the Antenna Metrology Lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). NIST set out to develop an antenna measurement facility that would be reconfigurable to different near-field antenna measurement geometries and perform antenna measurements from 100 to 500 GHz. An industrial robotic arm, hexapod and precision rotator were integrated to make a unique antenna measurement facility. A laser tracker with the ability to monitor and record the six degrees of freedom of a target was employed to measure and provide feedback used to correct the actual path of the robotic arm and position of the hexapod and rotator.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; industrial robots; millimetre wave antennas; optical tracking; reconfigurable architectures; submillimetre wave antennas; CROMMA; NIST; National Institute of Standards and Technology; antenna metrology lab; configurable robotic millimeter wave antenna facility; degrees of freedom; frequency 100 GHz to 500 GHz; hexapod; industrial robotic arm; laser tracker; near field antenna measurement geometry; precision rotator; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Millimeter wave measurements; NIST; Service robots; Target tracking; hexapod; laser tracker; precision rotary stage; robotic arm; spherical near-field scanning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2015 9th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Type

conf

Filename

7228762