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HERAS: A Modular Matlab Tool Using Physical Optics for the Analysis of Reflector Antennas
HERAS is a tool developed in Matlab for the analysis of reflector antennas using physical optics (PO) theory. Its graphical user interface (GUI) and source code are freely available for educational and research purposes. It has the necessity of being a flexible tool to provide adaptability to system...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9919543/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36772465 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23031425 |
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author | Baldominos, Alejandro Mercader-Pellicer, Salvador Goussetis, George Mengali, Alberto Fonseca, Nelson J. G. |
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description | HERAS is a tool developed in Matlab for the analysis of reflector antennas using physical optics (PO) theory. Its graphical user interface (GUI) and source code are freely available for educational and research purposes. It has the necessity of being a flexible tool to provide adaptability to system engineering requirements and can also be of interest to antenna engineers working on the design of reflector antennas. Due to the increasing demand of broadband services, satellite communications systems are becoming highly complex in order to meet connectivity requirements. To fully exploit the benefits of these systems, multidimensional optimisations are crucial, which call for an efficient estimation of the coverage characteristics. Reflector-based solutions are one of the preferred architectures for very high-throughput satellite (VHTS) systems. A detailed description of HERAS is presented in this paper which has been validated with available commercial software packages. In addition, some examples are described in which the tool has been used for the efficient estimation of VHTS systems performance. |
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spelling | pubmed-99195432023-02-12 HERAS: A Modular Matlab Tool Using Physical Optics for the Analysis of Reflector Antennas Baldominos, Alejandro Mercader-Pellicer, Salvador Goussetis, George Mengali, Alberto Fonseca, Nelson J. G. Sensors (Basel) Article HERAS is a tool developed in Matlab for the analysis of reflector antennas using physical optics (PO) theory. Its graphical user interface (GUI) and source code are freely available for educational and research purposes. It has the necessity of being a flexible tool to provide adaptability to system engineering requirements and can also be of interest to antenna engineers working on the design of reflector antennas. Due to the increasing demand of broadband services, satellite communications systems are becoming highly complex in order to meet connectivity requirements. To fully exploit the benefits of these systems, multidimensional optimisations are crucial, which call for an efficient estimation of the coverage characteristics. Reflector-based solutions are one of the preferred architectures for very high-throughput satellite (VHTS) systems. A detailed description of HERAS is presented in this paper which has been validated with available commercial software packages. In addition, some examples are described in which the tool has been used for the efficient estimation of VHTS systems performance. MDPI 2023-01-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9919543/ /pubmed/36772465 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23031425 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Baldominos, Alejandro Mercader-Pellicer, Salvador Goussetis, George Mengali, Alberto Fonseca, Nelson J. G. HERAS: A Modular Matlab Tool Using Physical Optics for the Analysis of Reflector Antennas |
title | HERAS: A Modular Matlab Tool Using Physical Optics for the Analysis of Reflector Antennas |
title_full | HERAS: A Modular Matlab Tool Using Physical Optics for the Analysis of Reflector Antennas |
title_fullStr | HERAS: A Modular Matlab Tool Using Physical Optics for the Analysis of Reflector Antennas |
title_full_unstemmed | HERAS: A Modular Matlab Tool Using Physical Optics for the Analysis of Reflector Antennas |
title_short | HERAS: A Modular Matlab Tool Using Physical Optics for the Analysis of Reflector Antennas |
title_sort | heras: a modular matlab tool using physical optics for the analysis of reflector antennas |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9919543/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36772465 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23031425 |
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