Adaptive Acquisition Techniques for Planar Near-Field Antenna Measurements
Author: Daniël Janse van Rensburg
Publication: AMTA 2011
Copyright Owner: NSI-MI Technologies
The use of adaptive acquisition techniques to reduce the overall test time in planar near-field antenna measurements is described. A decision function is used to track the accuracy of a measurement as the data acquisition proceeds, and to halt such acquisition when this is considered sufficient for the measured quantity of importance. Possible decision functions are defined and compared. Several test cases are presented to show that significant test time reduction is possible when compared to traditional acquisition schemes.