A Multiband Bi-conical Log-Periodic Antenna for Swarm Communications

Bessam Aljewad

Cihan University-Erbil Conferences, 3rd International Conference on Communication Engineering and Computer Science (CIC-COCOS’19)

Bessam Aljewad

Last modified: 2019-04-19

Abstract

In this paper, we present a specific multiband antenna design that addresses the problem of communication with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). We consider a scenario where multiband single-antenna UAV communicates with the rest of the swarm members that are equipped with similar antennas. The key point in the design is that the communication doesn’t require high or low elevation angles in most of the cases. The suggested design has a sufficient degree of freedom to select the desired features for the field pattern while keeping other features like antenna impedance and gain relatively stable or at least in the acceptable operation region.

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