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Compact, broadband, and thin corrugated U-shaped patch-constituted MIMO antennas for airborne UAV applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2022

Kapil Jain Open the ORCID record for Kapil Jain [Opens in a new window]  and
Vivek Singh Kushwah
Kapil Jain*
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics and Communication, Amity University, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India
Vivek Singh Kushwah
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics and Communication, Amity University, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India
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Author for correspondence: Kapil Jain, E-mail: kjainamity@gmail.com
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Abstract

The major component for the effective functioning of airborne unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is an antenna. The unified integration of an antenna with UAVs without disturbing the other components of UAVs, compact size, thin, and wideband antennas are preferred. Based on these prerequisites, a low-profile and a wideband antenna is presented for autonomous UAVs for C-band applications. The antenna is designed on an extremely thin substrate of size 0.01λ0 without compromising the antenna's broad bandwidth. The antenna structure comprises a corrugated U-shaped patch, a few parasitic patches along with the partial ground. Initially, only a single mode was excited using a U-shaped patch, then further on introducing a few more parasitic patches along with corrugations in a U-shaped patch other modes were also coupled leading to enhancement in the bandwidth of the antenna. The proposed antenna along with a 2 × 2 quad-port multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) antenna is designed and fabricated. The measured results are found to be in good agreement with the simulated results. A broad bandwidth of 74.5% (4.1–9.0 GHz) with 5.02 dBi peak gain at 6.6 GHz is exhibited by the fabricated MIMO antenna. Thus, the designed antenna proves to be an effective candidate for UAV-based C-band applications.

Keywords

Patch antennaU-shapebroadband antennaunmanned aerial vehiclesMIMO antenna
Type
Antenna Design, Modeling and Measurements
Information
International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies , Volume 15 , Issue 5 , June 2023 , pp. 871 - 880
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press in association with the European Microwave Association

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