A survey on millimeter-wave beamforming enabled UAV communications and networking

Z Xiao, L Zhu, Y Liu, P Yi, R Zhang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found widespread commercial, civilian, and military
applications. Wireless communication has always been one of the core technologies for …

Cognitive conformal antenna array exploiting deep reinforcement learning method

B Zhang, C Jin, K Cao, Q Lv… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A cognitive antenna array, which is designed by using deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is
proposed in this article to adapt to the complex electromagnetic environment. Specifically …

A conformal circularly polarized series-fed microstrip antenna array design

S Ogurtsov, S Koziel - IEEE transactions on antennas and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A conformal circularly polarized (CP) series-fed microstrip array design for broadside
radiation is presented. The array aperture under design is conformal to a cylindrical surface …

A thick origami reconfigurable and packable patch array with enhanced beam steering

M Hamza, CL Zekios… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents the first foldable thick-origami based antenna array made of a single
nonflexible (rigid) printed circuit board (PCB), which can be easily fabricated using a …

Height reduced concave sector-cut spherical conformal phased array antenna based on distributed aperture synthesis

HS Lin, YJ Cheng, YF Wu, Y Fan - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The conventional spherical conformal phased-array antenna (SPAA) has a wide beam
coverage but suffers from a high profile due to its spherical conformal carrier. In this article, a …

A self-adaptive phased array conformed on a highly flexible aperture

X Zhi, K Huang, Q Zhang, B Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In practical applications, a highly flexible conformal phased array will experience inevitable
deformations during severe weather conditions. This will distort radiating beams, especially …

Higher-order space harmonics in substrate integrated waveguide leaky-wave antennas

MR Rahimi, MS Sharawi, K Wu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The concept and feasibility of deploying higher-order space harmonics (HSHs) in 1-D
periodic leaky-wave antennas (1-D periodic LWAs) is proposed, studied, analyzed, and …

Design of a wide beamwidth spherical conformal antenna array for ship‐borne applications

Y Luo, G Zhao, N Yan, W An, K Ma… - Microwave and Optical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study presents the phase setting method for a spherical conformal antenna array to
achieve a wide beamwidth circularly polarized radiation pattern. A dodecahedral spherical …

Adaptive compensation of flexible skin antenna with embedded fiber Bragg grating

J Zhou, L Kang, B Tang, B Tang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Skin antenna can be installed in the structural surface of an aircraft, warship, or armored
vehicle. The radiation pattern is inevitably degraded due to the antenna surface …

Real-time deformation correction in additively printed flexible antenna arrays

S Poolakkal, A Islam, S Bansal, A Rao… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Conformal phased arrays provide multiple degrees of freedom to the scan angle, which is
typically limited by antenna aperture in rigid arrays. Silicon-based RF signal processing …