ADAPTIVE ANTENNA FACILITY

Adaptive Antenna Facility

This adaptive antenna facility has been established under National Facility Creation Project of CSIR 11th Five Year Plan. The objective was towards design, simulation and measurements of adaptive antennas for aerospace applications.

The installation and commissioning of Integrated Adaptive Antenna System has been done in Building 3-CB (CSIR 11th FYP National Facilities) during March 12th-22nd, 2012. Certification of the Integrated Adaptive Antenna System by third party consultant was carried out on 22nd March 2012.

This certified experimental facility is one of its kind test-bed (X-band) for adaptive array. The Simulation Lab. complements the measurement facility. The facility enables actual hardware development for strategic applications. Both indoor and outdoor measurements are possible.

Specifications:

• An ISO-certified national facility

•    Simulation Centre

  • Development of adaptive algorithms

  • Performance analysis of adaptive array

•    Measurement Setup

  • Test-bed for adaptive algorithms

  • Contemporary design of adaptive array

•   X-band receiving module with 16´16 phased array

•   An integrated adaptive array system capable of

  • Controlled electronic beam scanning

  • Estimation of DoA, frequency, power of the emitters

  • Maintenance of sufficient gain towards desired directions

  • Suppression of interfering signals

Techniques applied in this facility:

Adaptive algorithms developed for pattern synthesis, probe suppression, null placement can be tested.

Major clients of this facility:

• Defence labs

• Research labs

• Academia

• Private industries