Low-Cost Multiple Pencil-Beam Lens Antenna System

Funding: 2022: $64,690
2023: $130,855
2024: $126,144
2025: $86,440

Project Member(s): Yang, Y., Esselle, K., Thalakotuna, D.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Linkage Projects)
Australian Research Council (ARC Linkage Projects)
Frontier Instruments Pty Ltd
Frontier Instruments Pty Ltd

Start year: 2022

Summary: The project aims to develop a new multiple pencil beam antenna system, taking advantage of CIs' game-changing inventions in lens antennas, 3D printed antennas and arrays and antenna feeding network. A dual-polarised antenna array architect will be used for enhancing the sensing image quality and resolution, which will enable the disinfection robots to precisely recognise human presence and movement behind obstacles and walls for rapid and safe disinfection in public spaces. The project will have an immediate socio-economic impact on local business and communities. The outcomes of the project will create a safer public environment for people living and working in Australia and boost economic recovery in the post-pandemic period.

FOR Codes: MANUFACTURING, Antennas and propagation

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.