A Low-Cost Dual-Wideband Active GNSS Antenna with Low-Angle Multipath Mitigation for Vehicle Applications

作者：Wang, Zhongbao^*; Liu, Hongmei; Fang, Shaojun; Cao, Yuan

来源：Progress in Electromagnetics Research-PIER, 2014, 144: 281-289.

DOI：10.2528/PIER13121205

• ANNULAR PATCH ANTENNAS

A low-cost dual-wideband active global navigation satellite system (GNSS) antenna is proposed for vehicle applications. An inverted shorted annular ring (ISAR) and a shorted annular ring (SAR) are used as radiation patches for low-angle multipath mitigation and operated respectively at 1164-1279 MHz and 1559-1610 MHz. To reduce the effect of the mutual coupling between the ISAR and SAR, meanwhile broaden the impedance bandwidth of the ISAR, defected ground structures are etched under the microstrip feed lines of the ISAR. Two trans-directional couplers are adopted to form orthogonal dual-feed networks of the ISAR and SAR for wideband circularly polarized reception. A combiner is adopted to merge two way signals into one way amplified by a wideband low noise amplifier with the proposed DC and RF collinear transmission technology. The experimental results show that the proposed antenna is better than the NovAtel GPS-703-GGG pinwheel antenna in terms of signal reception.

• 出版日期2014
• 单位大连海事大学