Development of a conformal slot antenna for UAVs

Antenna, as an indispensable component of UAVs, has a great impact on the efficiency of information transmission. This project compared various slot antennas and aimed to find a conformal slot antenna with high gain and low profile. The designs and simulations were conducted in ANSYS HFSS. Par...

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Main Author: Jiang, Zeyu
Other Authors: Tan Eng Leong
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1768782024-05-24T15:43:45Z Development of a conformal slot antenna for UAVs Jiang, Zeyu Tan Eng Leong School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering EELTan@ntu.edu.sg Engineering Antenna UAV Antenna, as an indispensable component of UAVs, has a great impact on the efficiency of information transmission. This project compared various slot antennas and aimed to find a conformal slot antenna with high gain and low profile. The designs and simulations were conducted in ANSYS HFSS. Parameter sweep was utilized to adjust the length, width and location of slots and microstrip line, in order to help the slot antennas meet the requirements of impedance match and achieve better performances. Four kinds of slot antennas were operated at an input frequency of 2.5 GHz. Microstrip feed slot antenna is the most fundamental slot antenna with bias-fed feeding method. Cavity backed slot antenna makes the radiation only on a vertical downward direction. It also achieves the highest realized gain, 6.92 dB. Wide slot antenna has the largest bandwidth, 1 GHz. Triple slot antenna was built to simulate like a simple antenna array. Overall, all the designed slot antennas have good radiation patterns and low VSWR at the operated frequency, which are conformal to install on UAVs. The realized gain can still be enhanced by parameter selection in the future. Bachelor's degree 2024-05-21T06:06:19Z 2024-05-21T06:06:19Z 2024 Final Year Project (FYP) Jiang, Z. (2024). Development of a conformal slot antenna for UAVs. Final Year Project (FYP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/176878 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/176878 en A3159-231 application/pdf Nanyang Technological University
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Antenna
UAV
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Antenna
UAV
Jiang, Zeyu
Development of a conformal slot antenna for UAVs
description Antenna, as an indispensable component of UAVs, has a great impact on the efficiency of information transmission. This project compared various slot antennas and aimed to find a conformal slot antenna with high gain and low profile. The designs and simulations were conducted in ANSYS HFSS. Parameter sweep was utilized to adjust the length, width and location of slots and microstrip line, in order to help the slot antennas meet the requirements of impedance match and achieve better performances. Four kinds of slot antennas were operated at an input frequency of 2.5 GHz. Microstrip feed slot antenna is the most fundamental slot antenna with bias-fed feeding method. Cavity backed slot antenna makes the radiation only on a vertical downward direction. It also achieves the highest realized gain, 6.92 dB. Wide slot antenna has the largest bandwidth, 1 GHz. Triple slot antenna was built to simulate like a simple antenna array. Overall, all the designed slot antennas have good radiation patterns and low VSWR at the operated frequency, which are conformal to install on UAVs. The realized gain can still be enhanced by parameter selection in the future.
author2 Tan Eng Leong
author_facet Tan Eng Leong
Jiang, Zeyu
format Final Year Project
author Jiang, Zeyu
author_sort Jiang, Zeyu
title Development of a conformal slot antenna for UAVs
title_short Development of a conformal slot antenna for UAVs
title_full Development of a conformal slot antenna for UAVs
title_fullStr Development of a conformal slot antenna for UAVs
title_full_unstemmed Development of a conformal slot antenna for UAVs
title_sort development of a conformal slot antenna for uavs
publisher Nanyang Technological University
publishDate 2024
url https://hdl.handle.net/10356/176878
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