Multiband Antenna for Robotic Swarming with Application of Dynamic Boundary Tracking

摘要

Dynamic swarming of robots requires equally aggressive communication capability even in the event of dynamic network formations. "On-the-fly" communication can pull off real surprises in a matter of microseconds. This motivates a new class of multiband antenna design to accommodate various classes of robotic platforms and to enhance their communication capability. To address this need, we propose an antenna which is designed on FR4 substrate with a thickness of 1.6 mm, ε_r = 4.4, and loss tangent 0.02. The dimension of the antenna is 35 × 30 × 1.6 mm~3. Microstrip-line feeding is used in this antenna. It has a structure which is a combination of split ring resonator and meander line resonator. This design is simple, compact, and miniaturized. It seems promising to integrate with the rest of the dynamic boundary tracking robotic circuit.