Beamforming performance for a reconfigurable sparse array smart antenna system via multiple mobile robotic systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7706, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Okamoto, Garret ^a   Chen, Chih Wei ^a   Kitts, Christopher ^b  

^a Adaptive Communications Research Inc   (United States)

^b SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Robotic communications; Smart antenna system; Sparse array

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA BEAMFORMING; BEAMFORMERS; BEAMFORMING TECHNIQUE; CLUSTER CONTROL; COLLABORATIVE COMMUNICATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; INTERFERENCE SIGNAL; MOBILE ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; MULTI MOBILE ROBOT; MULTIPLE MOBILE ROBOT; MULTIROBOTS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABILITY; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SIMULATION RESULT; SINGLE ANTENNA; SMART ANTENNA SYSTEM; SMART ANTENNA SYSTEMS; SPARSE ARRAYS;

BEAMFORMING; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; SMART ANTENNAS;

MOBILE ANTENNAS;

EID: 79958152782     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.859738     Document Type: Conference Paper

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