The paper first introduces phased array configurations for radar and astronomy applications. In radar various trends can be observed, on the one hand driven by cost issues and on the other hand by increasing performance demands. The trends discussed, are the increasing bandwidth, the improvement of the Power Added Efficiency of transmit/receive modules, the phase shifter technology, alternative...

The article discusses the issues of accounting direction pattern parametric antenna array propagation sound over Earth’s surface. As a radiator, is used. A description given measuring equipment and experimental research methods. Delaney-Bezley model was used as surface impedance. results showed importance in predicting pressure level propagating acoustic signal On example difference with freque...

This paper presents a low-cost patternreconfigurable microstrip antenna. The proposed design strategy uses a slotted patch antenna on a bi-layer structure as basic element of a switched parasitic array. Reconfigurability is obtained by means of PIN diodes used to vary the resonance frequency of the parasitic patches. Experimental results referring to a prototype consisting of an array of three ...

Steerable Interfaces are emerging as a new paradigm used in realizing the vision of embodied interaction in ubiquitous computing environments. Such interfaces steer relevant input and output capabilities around space, to serve the user when and where they are needed. We present an architecture and a programming framework that enable the development of Steerable Interface applications. The distr...

Parasitic antennas are much lower in cost and complexity than conventional smart antennas. For this reason, they may be considered for use at the portable station. In this paper we study the capacity of a spacedivision-multiple-access (SDMA) system when n element switched parasitic antenna arrays (SPAA) are used for this purpose. As in [1], dynamic slot allocation (DSA) is used with a conventio...

This research paper contains a new electronically tunable current-mode biquadratic universal filter using a new active building block; current controlled differential difference current conveyor transconductance amplifier (CCDDCCTA). The proposed filter provides the following important and desirable features: (i) One can use only one CCDDCCTA and two capacitors; (ii) One can get low pass (LP), ...

Filters in a convolutional network are typically parametrized in a pixel basis. As an orthonormal basis, pixels may represent any arbitrary vector in R. In this paper, we relax this orthonormality requirement and extend the set of viable bases to the generalized notion of frames. When applying suitable frame bases to ResNets on Cifar-10+ we demonstrate improved error rates by substitution only....

Power series expansions in ka are derived for the pressure at the edge of a radiator, the reaction force on the radiator, and the total radiated power arising from a harmonically excited, resilient, flat, circular radiator of radius a in an infinite baffle. The velocity profiles on the radiator are either Stenzel functions (1− (σ/a)) with σ the radial coordinate on the radiator, or linear combi...

The development of steerable guide wire or catheter designs has been strongly limited by the lack of enabling actuator technologies. This paper presents the properties of an electrostrive actuator technology for steerable actuation. By carefully tailoring material properties and the actuator design, which can be integrated in devices, this technology should realistically make it possible to obt...