Improvement of communication reliability of small UAV by a tapered stacked antenna

Duck Hwan Kim; Kyu Hwan Lee; Young Sik Kim

doi:10.4218/etrij.06.0206.0140

Improvement of communication reliability of small UAV by a tapered stacked antenna

Duck Hwan Kim, Kyu Hwan Lee, Young Sik Kim

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Abstract

This letter proposes a tapered stacked microstrip antenna for application in small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which has advantages in mountainous terrains. With its tapered structure and increased bandwidth designed to operate at the resonance frequency of 2.4 GHz, the proposed antenna improves directivity, accuracy, and precision of small UAVs. The test flight results show the proposed tapered antenna has a three times higher impedance capability of 350 MHz based on VSWR<2. The transmission pattern is also more reliable than that of previous antenna designs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	796-798
Number of pages	3
Journal	ETRI Journal
Volume	28
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4218/etrij.06.0206.0140
Publication status	Published - 2006 Dec

Keywords

Microstrip patch antenna
Small unmanned aerial vehicle
Stacked
Tapered

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Computer Science(all)
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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