Evaluation of Planar Inkjet-Printed Antennas on a Low-Cost Origami Flapping Robot

Evaluation of Planar Inkjet-Printed Antennas on a Low-Cost Origami Flapping Robot

An investigation on antenna solutions for expendable origami paper flapping robots is presented. An origami flapping robotic bird that can be produced using standard A4 paper is employed. Antennas resonating at the two commonly used frequency bands, 2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz, are designed for the limited...

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Published in:IEEE access 2020, Vol.8, p.164103-164113
Main Authors: Njogu, Peter M., Sanz-Izquierdo, Benito, Jun, Sung Yun, Kalman, Gabriel, Gao, Steven, Malas, Asish, Gibbons, Gregory J.
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
3D printing
Antennas
Bandwidth
Birds
Cartridges
Configurations
coplanar waveguide (CPW)
Cranes
CST
drone
Flapping
Frequencies
Impedance
Inkjet printing
Microstrip antennas
Monopole antennas
Mutual coupling
Nanoparticles
origami
Printers (data processing)
Printing
Robots
Silver
Substrates
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Summary:An investigation on antenna solutions for expendable origami paper flapping robots is presented. An origami flapping robotic bird that can be produced using standard A4 paper is employed. Antennas resonating at the two commonly used frequency bands, 2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz, are designed for the limited space available on the folded origami structure. Two developments of the same dual-band monopole antenna are discussed. The first antenna is located on the robot's spine and the second on its tail. A space diversity configuration is also studied. The antennas are printed directly onto a photo paper substrate and then folded into an origami robotic crane's body structure. An ordinary desktop inkjet printer fitted with silver nanoparticle conductive ink cartridges has been employed. CST Microwave Studio™ has been used to design the antennas. A good agreement between the measured and simulated S_{11} results is achieved with a reasonable −10 dB impedance bandwidth realized in the three cases studied. The radiation patterns are omnidirectional in the XZ plane which is desirable for the specific application. The diversity configuration has a mutual coupling of
ISSN:2169-3536
2169-3536