Generalised method of current excitation reconstruction from near‐field data of planar, cylindrical and spherical antenna arrays

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (14) ◽  
pp. 1128-1136
Author(s):  
Ritika Sen ◽  
Thomas D. Jerome‐Surendran ◽  
Dhara Kiritkumar Trivedi ◽  
Mazher Abdul Qayyum ◽  
Balasubramaniam Preetham Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Antenna Arrays ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Spherical Antenna

scholarly journals An Innovative Direct NF-FF Transformation Technique with Helicoidal Scanning

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco D’Agostino ◽  
Flaminio Ferrara ◽  
Claudio Gennarelli ◽  
Rocco Guerriero ◽  
Massimo Migliozzi
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Fields ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Transverse Dimension ◽  
Computational Effort ◽  
Far Field ◽  
Transformation Technique ◽  
Spherical Antenna ◽  
Field Transformation ◽  
Mechanical Scanning

A direct near-field-far-field transformation with helicoidal scanning is developed. It is based on the nonredundant sampling representation of electromagnetic fields and uses a spherical antenna modelling to determine the number of helix turns. Moreover, the number of voltage samples on each of them is fixed by the maximum transverse dimension of the antenna, both to simplify the mechanical scanning and to reduce the computational effort. This technique allows the evaluation of the antenna far field directly from a minimum set of near-field data without interpolating them. Although the number of near-field data employed by the developed technique is slightly increased with respect to that required by rigorously applying the nonredundant sampling representation on the helix, it is still remarkably smaller than that needed by the standard near-field-far-field transformation with cylindrical scanning. The effectiveness of the technique is assessed by numerical and experimental results.

scholarly journals Source Localization of EM Waves in the Near-Field of Spherical Antenna Array in the Presence of Unknown Mutual Coupling

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Oluwole John Famoriji ◽  
Thokozani Shongwe
Keyword(s):  
Antenna Array ◽  
Source Localization ◽  
Antenna Arrays ◽  
Mutual Coupling ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Doa Estimation ◽  
Measured Data ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Spherical Antenna

To obtain an antenna array with isotropic radiation, spherical antenna array (SAA) is the right array configuration. The challenges of locating signals transmitted within the proximity of antenna array have been investigated considerably in the literature. However, near-field (NF) source localization of signals has hitherto not been investigated effectively using SAA in the presence of mutual coupling (MC). MC is another critical problem in antenna arrays. This paper presents an NF range and direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation technique via the direction-independent and signal invariant spherical harmonics (SH) characteristics in the presence of mutual coupling. The energy of electromagnetic (EM) signal on the surface of SAA is captured successfully using a proposed pressure interpolation approach. The DoA estimation within the NF region is then calculated via the distribution of pressure. The direction-independent and signal invariant characteristics, which are SH features, are obtained using the DoA estimates in the NF region. We equally proposed a learning scheme that uses the source activity detection and convolutional neural network (CNN) to estimate the range of the NF source via the direction-independent and signal invariant features. Considering the MC problem and using the DoA estimates, an accurate spectrum peak in the multipath situation in conjunction with MC and a sharper spectrum peak from a unique MC structure and smoothing algorithms are obtained. For ground truth performance evaluation of the SH features within the context of NF localization, a numerical experiment is conducted and measured data were used for analysis to incorporate the MC and consequently computed the root mean square error (RMSE) of the source range and NF DoA estimate. The results obtained from numerical experiments and measured data indicate the validity and effectiveness of the proposed approach. In addition, these results are motivating enough for the deployment of the proposed method in practical applications.

scholarly journals Imaging of bi-anisotropic periodic structures from electromagnetic near-field data

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dinh-Liem Nguyen ◽  
Trung Truong
Keyword(s):  
Inverse Scattering ◽  
Maxwell Equations ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Periodic Structures ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Scattering Problem ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Inverse Scattering Problem ◽  
Factorization Method ◽  
Unique Determination

AbstractThis paper is concerned with the inverse scattering problem for the three-dimensional Maxwell equations in bi-anisotropic periodic structures. The inverse scattering problem aims to determine the shape of bi-anisotropic periodic scatterers from electromagnetic near-field data at a fixed frequency. The factorization method is studied as an analytical and numerical tool for solving the inverse problem. We provide a rigorous justification of the factorization method which results in the unique determination and a fast imaging algorithm for the periodic scatterer. Numerical examples for imaging three-dimensional periodic structures are presented to examine the efficiency of the method.

USE OF RIGID REFLECTORS FOR THE VIRTUAL INCREASE OF FIELD DATA IN THE NEAR-FIELD ACOUSTICAL HOLOGRAPHY

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 49-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
SUNG-IL KIM ◽  
JEONG-GUON IH ◽  
JI-HOON JEONG
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Element Method ◽  
Transfer Matrix ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Measurement Data ◽  
Source Reconstruction ◽  
Matrix Equations ◽  
Inverse Boundary ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Acoustical Holography

This paper suggests the use of rigid reflectors to provide additional information for source reconstruction in near-field acoustical holography based on the inverse boundary element method. The additional field pressure and transfer matrix equations introduced provide a virtual increase in the measurement data without increasing the number of sensors or altering their arrangement, which could cost more than using reflectors. In order to validate this method, we successfully reconstruct a vibrating ellipse.

scholarly journals Spectral near field data of LED systems for optical simulations

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingo Rotscholl ◽  
Klaus Trampert ◽  
Udo Krüger ◽  
Franz Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Field Data ◽  
Near Field
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