Design of Combined Printed Helical Spiral Antenna and Helical Inverted-F Antenna for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Application

Yunan Han; Kunkun Hu; Ruichun Zhao; Yuan Gao; Lin Dai; Yufeng Fu; Bowen Zhou; Siyu Yuan

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2981041

IEEE Access (Jan 2020)

Design of Combined Printed Helical Spiral Antenna and Helical Inverted-F Antenna for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Application

Yunan Han,
Kunkun Hu,
Ruichun Zhao,
Yuan Gao,
Lin Dai,
Yufeng Fu,
Bowen Zhou,
Siyu Yuan

Affiliations

Yunan Han: ORCiD; College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
Kunkun Hu: ORCiD; College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
Ruichun Zhao: College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
Yuan Gao: College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
Lin Dai: Liaohe Petroleum Exploration Bureau Communication Company, Panjin, China
Yufeng Fu: College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
Bowen Zhou: College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
Siyu Yuan: Beijing Key Laboratory of Intelligent Telecommunications Software and Multimedia, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2981041
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8
pp. 54115 – 54124

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The design and implementation of printed helical spiral antenna (PHSA) and helical printed inverted-F antenna (IFA) are presented for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with global positioning system (GPS) L1 band (1.57 GHz) and telemetry communication frequency band (2.33 GHz) applications. The proposed antenna is miniaturized by co-winding the radiation elements on the same ceramic rod, surface covering by dielectric sealant, inserting a high permittivity dielectric load into the helical structure, turning and meandering the radiation element of PHSA into a spiral parallelogram structure. The PHSA and helical IFA antenna radiation elements are manufactured by silver pasted on the same hollow ceramic cylinder with a diameter of 12 mm and a height of 24.7 mm. The experimental and simulation results show that the proposed PHSA and IFA can achieve the gain of 0.05dB and 1.97 dB respectively and be suitable for GPS L1 band and telemetry communication frequency band (2.33 GHz) applications separately.

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ISSN: 2169-3536 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Website: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6287639

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