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Recent Developments at Heriot Watt:
Antenna Technology for Future Satellite
Communication Systems
Dr. Carolina Mateo-Segura, Assist. Professor
6/04/2017
Outline
Who are we?
Project grants
Partners
Research Activity:
Ground Segment – SOTM
Space Segment
Research Themes
Wireless Communications and Radar: Microwave and Antenna
Engineering Group
Micro and Nano Systems
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Signal and Image Processing
Institute of Sensors Signals & Systems
Laser sintering 3D printing
4x2 MIMO Testbed
In-house LTCC
Antenna & RF
Prof. Jia-Sheng
HongProf. George
Goussetis
Dr. Dimitris
Anagnostou
Dr. Apostolos
Georgiadis
Dr. Paul
RecordDr. Carolina
Mateo-Segura
Dr. Symon
Podilchak
Post-doc
Dr. Wenxing Tang
Dr. Jia Ni
Dr. C. Constantinidis
Dr. Yu Fu
Visiting scholars
Dr. Jose Gomez-Tornero
Dr. Pavel Turalchuk
Ms. Elham Ebrahimi
Ms. Fatemeh Adibzadeh
Research Staff
Prof. Savvas
Kosmopoulos
(Visiting)
The team
PhD studentsMr. Pak Kwan Loo
Mr. Zhou Zhou
Ms. Maria Lorente
Mr. Ross Aitken
Ms. Laura Hepburn
Mr. Hassan Al Aqil
Mr. Ibrahim Alotaibi
Mr. Salva Mercader
Mr. Jose Garcia
Mr. Giuseppe Salza
Ms. Mª Cañavate
Mr. Alexios Costouri
Mr. Spyros Daskalakis
Ms. Victoria Buendia
Mr. Pascual Hilario
Mr. Samuel Rotenberg
Mr. Rahil Joshi
Dr. Ana
Collado
Six faculty appointments on RF and
Antenna engineering since 2013
2016 Bell Labs Prize Winners (Georgiadis, Goussetis)https://www.bell-labs.com/var/articles/2016-bell-labs-prize-winners/
2016 EuMC Microwave Prize Winner, London (Podilchak)http://www.eumwa.org/en/european-microwave-week/eumc/prize-winners.html
2015 Best paper award IET Microwave, Antennas Propagation (Georgiadis)http://digital-library.theiet.org/journals/premium-awards#2015
2015 URSI Young Scientist Award (Podilchak)http://www.at-rasc.com/call-ys.asp
2014 IEEE Council on RFID (CRFID) Distinguished Lecturerhttp://www.ieee-rfid.org/distinguished-lectures/apostolos-georgiadis/
2012 EuCAP Antenna Theory Award (Goussetis)http://www.eucap2012.org/conference/best-paper-award
2011 EuCAP Best Student Paper (Goussetis)http://www.eucap2011.org/files/EuCAP2011_Awards_Finalists.pdf
2011 ESA Young Engineer of the Year (Goussetis)http://cordis.europa.eu/event/rcn/33749_en.html
2009-14 RAEng Research Fellowship (Goussetis)http://www.raeng.org.uk/publications/strategy-and-finance/annual-review-2011-2012
Recent Recognition & Achievements
Live grants of total value £2M, about £1M per annum since 2013
Live/Recent externally funded projects (2016):
EPSRC (2017-19, £700K, HWU £250K) – Smart QV-band gateway management
ESA (TRP, 2017-19, €450K, follow-up project) - Multibeam antenna technology
ESA (TRP, 2016-17, €350K, HWU €100K) – W-band beacon for propagation
QV-LIFT (H2020-COMPET-2016, €3.5M, HWU €350K) – Q/V-band satcom terminals
REVOLVE (H2020-MSCA-ITN, 2017-21, €1.8M) – Radio link in future space systems
DORADA (MC IAPP, 2014-17, Total €1.5M, HWU €1M) – Ka & Q/V-band satcom terminals
iREACT (H2020-MSCA-GF, 2016-19, €350K) – Wireless Power Transmission
CSA-EU (H2020-MSCA-IF, 2017-19, €200K) – Cubesat antennas
STFC (IPS, £100K, 2016) – Power handling in spaceborne filters
Textile Future Forum (£50K, 2016) – Textile antennas for on-body communications
Samsung (GRO, 2015-16, US$100K) – Wireless power transmission
Samsung (GRO, 2016-17, US$100K) – Automotive radar
ESA (TRP, 2015-16, Total €400K,) – Metamaterial flat antenna
ESA (TRP, 2013-15, Total €350K,) – CP Dual Optics PoC
ESA (ARTES 5.1, 2012-14, QUB €100K) – Ku/Ka CP FSS
ESA (TRP 2012-14, QUB €150K) - Liquid Crystals Reconfigurable Systems
ESA (ITI, 2013-15, Total €150K, HWU £31K) - Helical Resonator Filters
ESA (TTD, 2014, Total HWU €39K) – Compact Helical Filters
ESA (TRP, 2014-16, Total HWU €250K) – Miniature IF filters
DSTL (2013-14, HWU £100K) - Miniature RF antennas
Partners
Ground Segment
Projects (SOTM):
DORADA (£1M FP7):
WP1: SSPA WP2: Antennas WP3: Filters
WP4: System architecture & demo
Research agenda
2013: ALPHASAT Q/V band
payload (TDP#5): Europe’s
latest mm-wave civil
communication payload
(launched 2013)
2010: Mobile Very Small
Aperture Terminals (mVSAT):
satellite connection for trains and
airplanes presently in Ku-band
2020: broadband internet on the
move with mm-wave technology
for next generation Q/V-band
mVSAT
Context
Q-BAND TERMINAL @ HWU
Spectrum
Projects (SOTM):
METAMATERIAL ANTENNAS
GRADED INDEX LENS ANTENNABandwidth
Steerability
Solution proposed by HWU hybrid solution between Kymeta and
Phasor Tech products
Patent filed – Scottish
Enterprise (Spin Out)
Space Segment
Projects:
REVOLVE (£1.8M H2020): 7 PhDs
MULTIBEAM ANTENNA TECHNOLOGIES
• ESA Young Engineer of the year (2011)
• 1 patent filing in progress
Frequency
dispersive
designs for
payload
Quasi-optical
actuated
beamformers
Beamformers for
compact and
highly efficient
feeds
Graded index
optical
techniques
Reconfigurable
reflectarray
using
mechanical
techniques
Advanced
synthesis of
reflectarray
Deployable
structures
for antennas
• Polariser:
• FSS
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 320
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4
4.5
5
Frequency (GHz)
Axia
l R
atio (
dB
)
theta=11
theta=16
theta=20
theta=28
Projects:
LIQUID CRYSTALS RECONFIGURABLE SYSTEMS
M3MSAT CUBESAT ANTENNA
EuCAP 2012 Best Antenna Paper
Q&A