Author(s)

Tapas Mondal, Priyanka Shishodiya, Rowdra Ghatak, Sekhar Ranjan Bhadra Chaudhuri

1Department of ECE, Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur, West Bengal, INDIA.
Department of E&TCE, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, West Bengal, INDIA.
Department of ECE, Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur, West Bengal, INDIA.
Microwave and Antenna Research Laboratory, Department of ECE, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, West Bengal, INDIA.

Now a day’s accidents are very common due to increased population of vehicle. In order to ensure safety measures in the vehicle this paper has proposed some methodologies regarding careful driving by automatically scanning and analyzing the blind spot area of an intelligent mobile vehicle. A vehicular antenna with minimum perturbation is proposed to be fitted on the vehicle and collect information of the concern area which would ensure visibility of the operator i.e. masked or integrated within the car body. This paper has dealt with the design of Tchebyscheff polynomial based prototype planar microstrip phased array antenna and also redesigned the same when implemented in the body of the car being considered as an electromagnetically large element. Both the design has been experimentally verified with the measurement. The simulated and the measured results in both the cases are found to be in good agreement. More than 11 dB gain was observed at perfectly 30° angles from its broad side direction as desired for blind spot detection with minimum amount of electromagnetic interference inside the car.

ntelligent Transportation System; Microstrip Phased Array Antenna; Tchebyscheff Polynomial; Electromagnetic Interference

T. Mondal, P. Shishodiya, R. Ghatak and S. Chaudhuri, "Vehicular Radio Scanner Using Phased Array Antenna for Dedicated Short Range Communication Service," Journal of Electromagnetic Analysis and Applications, Vol. 4 No. 9, 2012, pp. 362-366. doi: 10.4236/jemaa.2012.49051.