Compressive sensing approach for fast antenna far field characterization

Benjamin Fuchs (1) , L. Le Coq (1) , S. Rondineau (2) , M.D. Migliore (3)

1 IETR - Institut d'Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique
2 UnB - University of Brasilia [Brazil]
3 UNICAS - Università degli studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale

A compressive sensing approach is proposed to speed up the measurement of antenna far field patterns. The antenna pattern is expanded into spherical harmonics providing a sparse representation of the field. Readily available algorithms can then be used to reconstruct the field from a reduced number of samples compared to conventional approaches. This strategy leads to important savings in the number of measurement points as shown in various experimental examples. © Institution of Engineering and Technology.All Rights Reserved.

Keywords: Antenna measurements; Antenna pattern; Compact antenna test range; Compressive sensing; Spherical harmonics

Domains: Engineering Sciences [physics]

Benjamin Fuchs, L. Le Coq, S. Rondineau, M.D. Migliore. Compressive sensing approach for fast antenna far field characterization. 12th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2018, Apr 2018, London, United Kingdom. ⟨10.1049/cp.2018.0637⟩. ⟨hal-02042767⟩