机载天线隔离度的分析计算与仿真

机载天线间的隔离度是飞机系统电磁兼容性的主要参数之一,用来表征天线间的耦合强弱程度.在实际工程中,飞机上集中了大量天线,使得周围空间电磁环境很复杂.在研究机载天线电磁兼容性时,采用计算天线间的隔离度数值的方法来实现.本文先通过对配置在圆柱体模型上的两个天线的隔离度进行理论分析和计算,然后采用HFSS仿真软件对所需频带内的两个天线隔离度进行了仿真,并将其两者的结果进行了比较,从而实现对整个频带内的天线的电磁兼容性的正确预测和评估.     

利用天线端口传导法评估机载接收机对强电磁环境的适应性

提出一种利用天线端口耦合传导信号来评估飞机射频接收机在遇到强电磁干扰环境的适应性。该方法在理论分析与实际测试相结合的基础上,通过对方法原理、天线耦合功率测试方法、天线端口传导敏感度测试方法等主要内容的分析和阐述,证明本方法是正确、简便的,是适用设备研制阶段评估抗高强度阻塞干扰的方法。     

基于角度分集的机载超宽带MIMO天线设计

为了提高机载通信设备信道容量和进一步减小天线安装空间，提出一种采用角度分集技术的超宽带（UWB）多输入多输出（MIMO）天线。该天线将Vivaldi天线和超宽带槽天线进行了集成设计，无需采用解耦结构便可获得较高的端口隔离度，大大提高了数据传输率。通过在Vivaldi天线辐射臂上开一对方形缝隙和在介质板背面增加长方形辐射贴片，可以有效减小天线的尺寸，设计的UWB-MIMO天线尺寸为36 mm×36 mm×0.8 mm。给出了天线的设计流程，加工了天线实物，并对其进行了测量。仿真和实测结果表明MIMO天线具有超宽的阻抗带宽，可以覆盖整个3.1~10.6 GHz超宽带频段。Vivaldi天线阻抗带宽为2.8~15.9 GHz，UWB槽天线阻抗带宽为1.8~12.7 GHz，天线端口隔离度均在-10 dB以下。测量了天线的辐射性能和增益特性，实测结果与仿真结果吻合较好，证明了该天线的有效性。该天线可以应用于超宽带无线通信系统和机载阵列天线系统中。     

集成低频脉冲功率解耦端口的机载电源系统

为了消除高峰均功率比低频脉冲负载对有限容量机载交流供电系统的周期性冲击等不利影响,对开关器件进行集成和复用,提出了能够同时提供功率解耦端口和直流输出端口的三端口功率解耦整流器。通过将三端口整流器与DC/DC变换器组合,构造出集成低频脉冲功率解耦端口的机载电源系统,实现了直流侧周期性脉动功率和交流源侧功率的解耦,并保证低频脉冲负载正常供电需求。详细分析了三端口整流器的工作原理,提出了与之相适应的功率控制方法和调制策略,基于开关器件分时复用原理,实现了交流端口到两个直流端口的功率传输和分配,并实现了两个直流端口功率切换过程的平滑过渡。实验结果验证了所提三端口脉冲功率解耦整流器的有效性和可行性。     

宽带太赫兹非对称十字孔矩形波导定向耦合器的设计

根据波导定向耦合器原理,设计了一种太赫兹频段,采用非对称十字形孔耦合的矩形波导定向耦合器。通过优化波导结构和十字形耦合孔参数,在WR4波导频段内,实现了稳定的耦合平坦度、良好的方向性和工作带宽。仿真结果表明该型波导定向耦合器耦合度稳定在-19.9d B~-22.0d B之间,方向性优于32d B,相对工作带宽为40%。     

单脉冲双极化天线阵列设计

文章研究了单脉冲双极化天线阵列。天线阵混合馈电微带单元由共面微带线馈电和缝隙耦合微带线馈电两者结合形成,"十"字形微带单脉冲比较器与天线阵同面,具有结构紧凑、加工方便和成本低的优点。经仿真验证,在工作频带内其辐射单元双端口隔离度高于34dB;并且2个极化端口在其对应主平面方向的副瓣电平均低于-20dB。天线可适用于新一代多极化雷达系统。     

波音飞机机载通讯设备(HF)618T天线耦合器工作分析

本文详细分析了波音飞机高频通讯(HF)天线耦合器系统的工作原理,着重介绍自动调谐电路中的相位检测器、阻抗检测器、负功率检波器及方式顺序逻辑电路的工作原理。通过对天线耦合器电路分析,弄清自动调谐信号的产生和自动调谐过程,加深对耦合器的理解,可供飞机维护人员参考,提高维护水平。     

卫星天线极化隔离度在轨测试方法与误差分析

建立卫星天线极化隔离度在轨测试的全程链路模型,分析交叉极化分量产生的机理,给出一种符号表示方法标识由各天线馈源激励产生的各段链路上的信号。分析和实际测试结果表明,主极化和交叉极化接收通道都会在2个相近的频点上产生多个极化分量矢量合成的信号,如果频谱仪分辨率设置不当,则得不到正确的测试结果。由于无法完全分离地面天线和卫星天线产生的交叉极化分量,卫星天线极化隔离度受到地面天线极化隔离度的影响。此外,还描述了高精度测量的卫星天线极化隔离度在轨测试流程和误差分析方法。     

正确实施CE106发射试验的两个基本条件

提出了正确实施GJB151A/152A-97CE106发射试验的两个基本条件。只要发射机天线端口基波峰值功率和测试系统配置参数符合了这两个基本条件,超过极限值的任何谐波和杂波将会显示在测试结果中。     

机载天线电磁耦合分析

论述如何利用电磁干扰分析表格预测两机载天线间的电磁耦合能量，并提出了减小电磁耦合的措施以及飞机天线耦合的验证方法 。     

Optimized RF test range for educational purposes

Both the design and construction of a composite scale airframe and the equipment for an anechoic test range plus the in-house production of absorptive wall covering-all for engineering education-are briefly described. It is shown, that low cost home-made absorbing material with an attenuation of 30 dB or more can be designed. Waveguide and ground plane antennas for test purposes can be constructed from surplus materials. In this case the design and measurements of a 3 GHz antenna pair are shown. Finally, as a test object, a cheap yet effective scale model of a modern fighter aircraft is used for measurements of radar cross section and antenna installations. As a demonstration of the total system capabilities, the measurement of installed F-18 antennas is shown     

飞行器共形天线新型制造工艺及应用研究进展

共形天线具有小型化、低剖面、大孔径等特点,是未来天线重点发展趋势之一,以气动一体化天线、超宽带窄波束天线为代表的共形天线成为目前飞行器天线领域的研究热点。当前共形天线的制作工艺主要包括打印、转印、激光加工等,采用合适的工艺能够实现天线的大面积共形制造。讨论了共形天线在不同飞行器载体上的优势,如打印制作的低剖面机载天线可实现战机的气动隐身一体化需求,也可满足弹载天线小型超宽带需求,柔性天线可应用于星载充气可展开天线等。在此基础上对当前共形天线存在的关键技术问题进行了阐述,并对共形天线在航空航天领域的未来发展做出了展望。     

民用飞机甚高频通信天线设计

作为民用飞机甚高频(Very High Frequency,以下简称VHF)通信系统的重要组成部分,VHF通信天线不仅辐射和接收电磁波,还要进行能量转换。VHF通信天线的设计直接影响通信中射频能量的分布,进而影响通信质量和飞行安全。简要介绍了VHF通信系统,并在给出VHF通信天线设计要求的基础上,通过工程实例分析了VHF通信天线的设计过程,最后总结了VHF通信天线设计的特点。     

机载高频振子天线在飞机滚动面内的方向图计算

现代电子战要求在飞机上安装越来越多的雷达天线，由于金属机身的存在，雷达天线的辐射受到机身的影响，为了减少这种影响，在飞机研制，改型设计中，需要计算天线在飞机附近辐射场的分布，从而选择适当的天线安装装置。本文采用一致性几何绕射理论（ＵＴＤ），讨论在机身上安装高频振子天线时，飞机滚动面内的辐射场计算模型及计算结果。     

Performance analysis of radar antenna systems

If modern airborne radar systems are to function properly, the radar antenna radiation patterns must meet certain specifications. Until recently, most radar antennas were designed and tested in a clean antenna environment, i.e., there is no near field scattering from host structures or radome effects. However, these higher order effects are the matter of increasing concern with added performance demands in the ever-increasing jammer and clutter interference environments. We investigated the capabilities and limitations of currently available analysis techniques and computer codes for installed performance of airborne radar antenna systems. Then we developed an extended ray-optical technique that could predict total installed performance of airborne radar antenna systems, i.e., the near field scattering from aircraft structures and radome effects. The new analysis technique utilized a ray-tracing method in both airframe and radome simulation. Thus, it can efficiently predict the total installed performance of large radar antenna systems on an aircraft structure     

Interferometer Design for Elevation Angle Estimation

Radars that are developed for the purpose of monitoring aircraft landings in the terminal air traffic control system can be designed to exploit the relatively high signal-to-noise ratio that characterizes the power budgets calculated for such a link. An interferometer using a pair of low gain antennas can be used to obtain passive coverage over a targe azimuth and elevation sector. A large baseline can be used to obtain the desired elevation angle estimation accuracy. In this paper an optimal tradeoff between the width of the subarray aperture and the width of the interferometer baseline is performed that achieves a specified elevation angle estimation error while minimizing the overall height of the interferometer configuration. The algorithm searches through the class of antenna patterns that can be synthesized from so-called finite impulse response, linear phase digital filters. For the specific problem of designing an elevation sensor for monitoring landing aircraft on final approach, the elevation angle can be estimated with no more than 1-mrad rms error when the aircraft is within ± 60° azimuth, 2.5° to 40° elevation, using two 7-wavelength subarray antennas spaced 8 wave-lengths apart. The design of a separate sensor for resolving the interferometer ambiguities is formulated as a hypothesis testing problem and solved using statistical decision theory. A bound on the probability of an ambiguity error is derived that accounts for the effects of ground reflection multipath and receiver noise.     

Effects of RF absorbers on measurements of small antennas in smallanechoic chambers

In this work, the influence of resistive absorbers in the vicinity of small antennas was investigated, in order to define a lower limit for the size of a small anechoic chamber for antenna calibration and radiation pattern measurements, with respect to the distance between the antenna under test (AUT) and the RF absorbers lining the walls. Furthermore, the influence of a relatively narrow transmission channel, formed by the absorbers on the side walls between the measurement antenna and the AUT was investigated. It was found by measurements that absorbers with the length of 610 mm do not have a measurable effect on the radiation characteristics of a small antenna at around 1.8 GHz, as long as they are kept more than 100 mm from the AUT, and the transmission channel formed by the absorbers between the antennas is wider than 100 mm     

飞行器热天线热电联合计算方法

为了研究高温环境对热天线电性能的影响,提出了一种热电联合计算方法,通过三维热、电信息传递程序实现不同温度区域介电性能的空间加载,以此关联温度场与电磁场网格节点信息,实现温度场-电磁场耦合问题的联合计算。介绍了热电联合计算方法的原理与思路,并以某型热天线为研究对象,考查天线温度分布对电性能的影响程度,为飞行器热天线的精细化设计提供了途径。该方法可应用于热透波结构的高温电性能分析,尤其对于恶劣热环境下的热天线/天线罩设计具有较高的应用价值。     

Polarization Mismatch Errors in Radio Phase Interferometers

An analysis is presented which deals with the effects of polarization mismatch errors on the accuracy of a phase interferometer used for position location of unknown emitters relative to known calibration emitters. Closed-form expressions for the induced phase difference between interferometer antennas are derived for several combinations of receiving and transmitting antenna polarizations. Errors contributed by mechanical misalignment between antennas, as well as effects of power loss attributable to polarization mismatch, are also considered. The analysis leads to the conclusion that circularly polarized interferometer and transmitter antennas are best suited for the position location application, if it is assumed that polarization tracking of the interferometer antennas is not available. It is shown that a reasonable amount of ellipticity can be tolerated before the phase error becomes significant.     

City Noise and Its Effect Upon Airborne Antenna Noise Temperatures at UHF

Results of an experimental program to determine the characteristics of city noise and its effect on airborne UHF antennas are presented. Coherent sources of energy from communications equipment, radar, navigational aids, etc. are not included in the analysis. Based upon the experimental data, a model of the industrial noise is presented in which an industrial area is considered as a uniformly distributed source of independent radiators. The magnitude of the power density distribution was computed to be 3×10-18 to 1×10-18 W/m2/Hz over the UHF band for all the East Coast cities measured, with the exception of New York City which was 5 to 6 dB higher. Relations have been derived and curves plotted to compute antenna noise temperature increase due to city noise, based upon the metropolitan area and its range from the aircraft.