Null Steering in Failed Antenna Arrays

Null-steering LMS Dual-Polarised Adaptive Antenna Arrays for GPS

The implementation of a null-steering antenna array using dual polarised patch antennas is considered. Several optimality criterion for adjusting the array weights are discussed. The most effective criteria minimises the output power of the array subject to maintaining a right hand circular polarisation (RHCP) response on the reference antenna. An unconstrained form of this criteria is derived,...

Fluidic beam steering in parasitically coupled patch antenna arrays

Null steering of dolph-chebychev arrays using taguchi method

Dolph-Chebychev arrays are known to exhibit the best compromise between sidelobe level and directivity. However, they place a constraint on the null locations. Any attempt to impose nulls or get them deeper will impact the directivity/sidelobe level trade-off. In this work, null placement in Dolph-Chebychev arrays through element position perturbation is carried out based on Taguchi method whil...

Null Steering GPS Array in the Presence of Mutual Coupling

A null steering GPS antenna array is designed in this paper. In the proposed method, the exact full wave antenna radiation properties with the effect of mutual couplings and nearby scatterers are considered to calculate the array steering vector, precisely. Although the proposed method is not constrained by the array geometry and the antenna element specifications, a five patch antenna elements...

Pre-steering derivative constraints for robust broadband antenna arrays

The weights of an optimum PB (Pre-steered broadband) antenna array processor are often obtained by solving a LCMV (linearly constrained minimum variance) problem. The objective function is the mean output power (variance) and the constraints space is a set of linear equations which ensure a constant gain in a fixed direction known as the look direction. However, errors in a practical scenario c...