September 18, 2021

New Publication: Impact of Rotors on Electromagnetic Field

The development and progress in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) also has an impact on many other fields as new applications arise. Near-field antenna measurements, for example, have been traditionally performed in anechoic chambers where the antenna had to come to the measurement system. With the usage of UAVs, a very flexible measurement system can be designed and brought to the antenna under test which enables the measurement of large antennas and also the characterization of mounted antennas in their real operating environment. However, the changed measurement setup entails new components which cause effects that may introduce noise or errors if they are not treated carefully. One key difference of traditional chamber-based measurements and their UAV-based counterparts is the fact that the field probe contains moving parts as the whole UAV including the probe antenna has to be considered as field probe. In our new publication, we investigate the impact of the rotating rotor blades of a UAV on the performance of a field probe. The article has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement and is available on IEEEXplore. A list of further publications can be found here.

faullab.com by Fabian Faul