Research Progress on Helmet Antenna in Individual Soldier Communication System

LI Jian; WAN Leitian; XIAN Chengwei; ZHOU Yuedan; HUANG Wenyi; HUANG Yongjun; WEN Guangjun

doi:10.11999/JEIT220613

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LI Jian, WAN Leitian, XIAN Chengwei, ZHOU Yuedan, HUANG Wenyi, HUANG Yongjun, WEN Guangjun. Research Progress on Helmet Antenna in Individual Soldier Communication System[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2023, 45(7): 2375-2385. doi: 10.11999/JEIT220613

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LI Jian, WAN Leitian, XIAN Chengwei, ZHOU Yuedan, HUANG Wenyi, HUANG Yongjun, WEN Guangjun. Research Progress on Helmet Antenna in Individual Soldier Communication System[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2023, 45(7): 2375-2385. doi: 10.11999/JEIT220613

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LI Jian, WAN Leitian, XIAN Chengwei, ZHOU Yuedan, HUANG Wenyi, HUANG Yongjun, WEN Guangjun. Research Progress on Helmet Antenna in Individual Soldier Communication System[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2023, 45(7): 2375-2385. doi: 10.11999/JEIT220613

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Research Progress on Helmet Antenna in Individual Soldier Communication System

doi: 10.11999/JEIT220613

School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China

Funds: The National Natural Science Foundation of China (61971113, 61901095), The National Key R&D Program (2018YFB1802102, 2018AAA0103203)

Received Date: 2022-05-13
Rev Recd Date: 2022-07-14

Available Online: 2022-07-21

Publish Date: 2023-07-10

Abstract

Abstract

Helmet antenna is a kind of antenna that is conformal to individual wearable helmet with unique man-made structure or material. It is the core component of individual soldier wireless communication system. In most of the current schemes of helmet antennas, it is only focused on one or two aspects of antenna performances such as omnidirectional radiation, wide bandwidth, high gain and low Specific Absorption Rate (SAR), which is difficult to meet the volatile changing tactical requirements. Recently, a variety of new structures of antenna designing and impedance matching methods based on the artificial magnetic conductors and metamaterials have been proposed, which make it hopeful for helmet antenna to break through the technical problems of mutual restriction among gain, bandwidth, size, weight and electromagnetic radiation. In this paper, the research progress of helmet antenna in radiation direction controlling, bandwidth expanding, gain enhancement and reduction of specific absorption rate is firstly summarized. Meanwhile the breakthroughs of helmet antenna in the future is anticipated and a kind of round array helmet antenna designing based on non-Foster circuit is proposed.
- Helmet antenna,
- Radiation omnidirectional,
- Metamaterials,
- Broadband active impedance matching,
- Specific Absorption Rate (SAR)

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