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Design and Fabrication of 24 GHz 3-Beam Scan Antennas for ACC Applications  

원영진 (포항공과대학교 전자전기공학과)
이영주 (포항공과대학교 전자전기공학과)
공영균 (포항공과대학교 전자전기공학과)
김영수 (포항공과대학교 전자전기공학과)
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Abstract
For driver's convenience, the ACC(Adaptive Cruise Control) requires a system which determines the direction of vehicles and controls the vehicle to keep the distance among the automobiles constant. This paper describes the microstrip array antennas designed to operate at 24 GHz, and used as a direction indicator of moving vehicles. 8${\times}$2 transmit array antenna with wide beamwidth, 8${\times}$4 receive center array antenna, and two 8${\times}$8 receive array antennas with narrow beamwidth were designed and fabricated. Measurement results for the arrays showed that the azimuthal beamwidth is 50$^{\circ}$and the gain is 16.7 dBi for the transmit array antenna. For the receive array antenna, the center, the left, and the right array antenna have beamwidths of 20$^{\circ}$, 13$^{\circ}$, 13$^{\circ}$respectively, and have gains of more than 20 dBi. The left and right array antenna have the beam tilt angle of ${\pm}$18$^{\circ}$. The measured radiation patterns showed a good agreement with the simulated patterns, and the designed array antennas are suitable fur detecting 3 directions of the vehicle within the scan angle area.
Keywords
ACC; Beam-Scan; FMCW Radar; Aperture-Coupled Microstrip Antenna; Corporate Feed;
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