Antenna Radiation - 16x1 Array : Beam Steering

 

 

 

 

 

 

Followings are the code that I wrote in Octave to creates all the plots shown in this page. You may copy these code and play with these codes. Change variables and try yourself until you get your own intuitive understanding.

 

< Code 1 >

 

function main

  

xstep = -10*pi:pi/10:10*pi;

ystep = -10*pi:pi/10:10*pi;;

[X,Y] = meshgrid(xstep,ystep);

 

n=8; % should be even integer

k=2;

p = 36*pi/4;

 

Z = zeros(length(xstep));

for i = ((0:(n-1))-((n-1)/2))

   [X1,Y1] = meshgrid(xstep+(i*pi/k),ystep);

   Z = Z+(waveCosPh(X1,Y1,p,p));

end;

 

hFig = figure(1,'Position',[300 300 700 280]);

subplot(1,2,1);

surface(X,Y,Z,'edgecolor','none');

xlim([-10*pi 10*pi]);ylim([-10*pi 10*pi]);zlim([-10,10]);

view([-40 70]);

set(gca,'xticklabel',[]);

set(gca,'yticklabel',[]);

set(gca,'zticklabel',[]);

set(gca,'xtick',[]);

set(gca,'ytick',[]);

set(gca,'ztick',[]);

 

subplot(1,2,2);

surface(X,Y,Z,'edgecolor','none');

xlim([-10*pi 10*pi]);ylim([-10*pi 10*pi]);zlim([-10,10]);

view([0 90]);

set(gca,'xticklabel',[]);

set(gca,'yticklabel',[]);

set(gca,'zticklabel',[]);

set(gca,'xtick',[]);

set(gca,'ytick',[]);

set(gca,'ztick',[]);

 

end;

 

function z = waveCosPh(x,y,Ph,r)

 

 d = sqrt(x.^2 + y.^2)-Ph;

 dim = size(d);

 dr = dim(1);

 dc = dim(2);

 

 for i = 1 : dr

     for j = 1 : dc

         if d(i,j) > r

            d(i,j) = pi/2;

         end;    

     end;     

 end;    

 

 %z = cos(d-Ph);

 z = cos(d);

 

end