A biologically-inspired, platform-integrated VHF antenna system for compact ground robots(Research Area 10.3)
Abstract
In this short-term innovative research project, we propose to investigate new concepts in the design of electrically-small antenna arrays that exploit their supporting platforms to achieve improved direction finding accuracies as well as enhanced bandwidths at the low end of the VHF frequency band. This project builds upon the latest findings of previous DoD and NSF funded research projects, which demonstrated that the next big leap in performance improvement of platform-mounted HF/VHF/UHF antennas comes from efficient exploitation of the platform as part of the radiating element. Based on this major finding, the overall objective of the proposed research project is to exploit the presence of platform to enhance the performance of platform-mounted small-aperture direction finding systems operating at the VHF band. Specifically, the project involves two main research tasks. These include the development of bandwidth enhanced, platform-base VHF antennas and the development of a platform-based, biomimetic, electrically-small antenna array for direction finding applications at the VHF band. The concepts proposed in this work are expected to address several critical challenges in the area of low-frequency antenna design that are directly relevant to the needs of the U.S. Army.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Oct 16, 2018
- Source ID
- W911NF1710291
Entities
People
- Nader Behdad
Organizations
- Army Contracting Command
- United States Army
- University of Wisconsin–Madison