TY  - GEN
ID  - elediasc12326
A1  - Azaro, Renzo
A1  - Ioriatti, Luca
A1  - Martinelli, Mauro
A1  - Benedetti, Manuel
A1  - Massa, Andrea
AV  - public
KW  - Smart antennas
KW  -  Adaptive Arrays
KW  -  Antenna Prototype
TI  - An experimental realization of a fully-adaptive smart antenna
UR  - http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/326/
Y1  - 2008/06//
N2  - In this letter, the structure of the prototype of a smart antenna working in the 2.4 GHz band is described. The radiating structure is composed by a 8-elements linear array with a finite reflecting plane and its adaptive behaviour is obtained by means of a set of electronically-driven vector modulators that control the array weights. The antenna system is equipped with a control software based on a Particle Swarm Optimizer (PSO) algorithm that enables the system to adapt to the complex interference scenario. A selected set of numerical and experimental results are reported and discussed to assess the effectiveness of the proposed architecture. The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com
ER  -