Laboratory to Develop a Practical Hand-Made Monopulse Antenna for RFID Localization Systems

Abstract

We describe an educational laboratory to develop a Direction-of-Arrival (DoA) system to locate RFID tags. Along the five proposed sessions, the students will develop the whole system, from the design, manufacturing, and optimization of the antenna to the programming of the location algorithm and testing of a prototype by using commercial RFID tags and a RFID reader. The lab sessions are thought for postgraduate students in Electrical Engineering.

Keywords

• Antennas and microwaves
• direction-of-arrival
• engineering education
• postgraduate teaching
• RFID
• leaky-wave antennas