Viability of wall-embedded tag antenna for ultra-wideband real-time suitcase lo...

• Author(s): Zaric, A. ; Matos, V. S. ; Costa, J. R. ; Fernandes, C. A.
• Date: 2014
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/7499
• Origin: Repositório do ISCTE-IUL
• Subject(s): Network analysers; Ultra wideband antennas; Conformal antennas; Ultra wideband communication; Monopole antennas; Radiofrequency identification; Radio transceivers
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

WOS:000335152600007 (Nº de Acesso Web of Science) Viability of a conformal single-layer monopole antenna is studied for a wall-embedded tag in an ultra-wideband (UWB) suitcase localisation application based on impulse radio UWB. The performance of the embedded antenna is simulated and confirmed experimentally in real-time localisation (RTL) experiments carried out in a cluttered laboratory environment. Evaluation in the main planes shows average suitcase positioning error around 8 cm for worst-case conditions. RTL tests are made when the suitcase is empty, when it is filled with common travelling items and also when it is shadowed by a second suitcase. A vector network analyser-based measurement set-up is used for target localisation error evaluation. Additionally, the same tests are repeated using portable commercial time-domain transceivers with similar results.