Retrodirective Transceiver Utilizing Phased Array and Direction Finder

Authors

  • Mohammed Aseeri National Center for Telecommunications and Defense System Technologies (TDST) King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology (KACST), P.O. Box 6086 Riyadh 11442, Saudi Arabia Center of Excellence for Microwave Sensor Technology (CMST), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
  • Waleed Alomar National Center for Telecommunications and Defense System Technologies (TDST) King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology (KACST), P.O. Box 6086 Riyadh 11442, Saudi Arabia Center of Excellence for Microwave Sensor Technology (CMST), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
  • Hamad Alotaibi National Center for Telecommunications and Defense System Technologies (TDST) King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology (KACST), P.O. Box 6086 Riyadh 11442, Saudi Arabia Center of Excellence for Microwave Sensor Technology (CMST), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
  • Abdulrahman Aljurbua National Center for Telecommunications and Defense System Technologies (TDST) King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology (KACST), P.O. Box 6086 Riyadh 11442, Saudi Arabia Center of Excellence for Microwave Sensor Technology (CMST), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Keywords:

Frequency component isolation circuit, frequency scanning antenna array, retrodirective antenna

Abstract

Retrodirectivity have several important applications in communication and in wireless power transfer. In this paper, frequency sensitive retrodirective transceiver is proposed. It receives a signal and infers its direction from its frequency spectrum, then it can transmit a new signal back to the same or other direction at the designer wish. To determine the direction of the coming signal, a 0.85-1.15GHz frequency scanning phased array antenna is used so that the received signal would have a distorted spectrum with the maximum amplitude frequency component linked to the direction of the signal. Based on the frequency scanning, the retrodirectivity system can be used for wireless power transfer or for reactive jamming. Special circuit is designed to receive the signal with strongest power and to isolate the frequency component with maximum amplitude. Phase-locked loop (PLL) circuit is used to link such frequency to specific phase shift that is introduced to the transmitter array antenna to send a new signal to the same direction of the received signal. ADS simulation is performed to demonstrate the performance of each block.

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Author Biographies

Mohammed Aseeri, National Center for Telecommunications and Defense System Technologies (TDST) King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology (KACST), P.O. Box 6086 Riyadh 11442, Saudi Arabia Center of Excellence for Microwave Sensor Technology (CMST), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Mohammed Aseeri is currently an Associate Professor at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), National Centre for Telecommunications and Defense Systems Technologies (TDST) and Co-PI at Center of Excellence for Microwave Sensor Technology (CMST) in a joint project between KACST and University of Michigan (UoM) at USA. His Ph.D. in Electronics from the University of Kent, Canterbury, England. He has participated as a Researcher at the Australian National University (ANU in Australia.

Waleed Alomar, National Center for Telecommunications and Defense System Technologies (TDST) King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology (KACST), P.O. Box 6086 Riyadh 11442, Saudi Arabia Center of Excellence for Microwave Sensor Technology (CMST), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Waleed Alomar received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering with First Honors from King Saud University, Riyadh, SA, in 2005. He received his master degree in Electrical Engineering, his master degree in Applied Economic and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Michigan, US. He is working as Director and Assistant Prof. for the Center of Microwave Sensor Technology at KACST, Saudi Arabia.

Hamad Alotaibi, National Center for Telecommunications and Defense System Technologies (TDST) King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology (KACST), P.O. Box 6086 Riyadh 11442, Saudi Arabia Center of Excellence for Microwave Sensor Technology (CMST), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Hamad Alotaibi received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering with First Honors from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in 2017. Since January 2018, he has been working as a Researcher for the Center of Microwave Sensor Technology at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Abdulrahman Aljurbua, National Center for Telecommunications and Defense System Technologies (TDST) King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology (KACST), P.O. Box 6086 Riyadh 11442, Saudi Arabia Center of Excellence for Microwave Sensor Technology (CMST), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Abdulrahman Aljurbua received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering with First Honors from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in 2017. Since August 2017, he has been working as a Researcher for the Center of Microwave Sensor Technology at KACST, Saudi Arabia.

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Published

2020-09-01

How to Cite

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Mohammed Aseeri, Waleed Alomar, Hamad Alotaibi, and Abdulrahman Aljurbua, “Retrodirective Transceiver Utilizing Phased Array and Direction Finder”, ACES Journal, vol. 35, no. 9, pp. 1073–1079, Sep. 2020.

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2020: Vol 35 Iss 9

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