• DocumentCode
    1948339
  • Title

    Design of antenna conformal to V-shaped tail of UAV based on the method of Characteristic Modes

  • Author

    Obeidat, Khaled ; Rojas, Roberto G. ; Raines, Bryan

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    23-27 March 2009
  • Firstpage
    2493
  • Lastpage
    2496
  • Abstract
    The method of characteristic modes is used to design a vertically polarized communications antenna conformal to the V-shaped tail of a small UAV. The antenna must operate in the band from 50 to 90 MHz and must be omni-directional. This antenna has a vertical dimension of lambda/17 at 50 MHz.
  • Keywords
    VHF antennas; aircraft antennas; conformal antennas; directive antennas; electromagnetic wave polarisation; remotely operated vehicles; UAV; V-shaped tail; conformal antenna; frequency 50 MHz to 90 MHz; omni directional antenna; unmanned aerial vehicle; vertically polarized communication; Aircraft; Antenna feeds; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Equations; Frequency; Impedance; Laboratories; Polarization; Tail; Unmanned aerial vehicles;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation, 2009. EuCAP 2009. 3rd European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Berlin
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4753-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-3-00-024573-2
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5068120