Abstract

ABSTRACT Controlling objects with body language is an extremely interesting ability for human beings. Recognizing different gestures is an effective way to collect valuable information, which is used to switch the radiation characteristic of beam scanning antennas. However, most existing beam scanning antennas are wire-connected and manually controlled by users. Thereby, a novel framework of gesture-controlled antennas is proposed in this paper. Rather than DC voltages supplied by powers or AC voltages supplied by signal generators, the beam scanning antenna can be effectively controlled by different gesture commands collected in real time from the user. On this basis, considering the advantages of the low cost and wide frequency band of liquid crystal (LC) materials, a LC-based fixed-frequency beam scanning leaky wave antenna (LWA) with gesture-controlled systems is demonstrated as one example. Different gestures can be recognised as controlled information to supply corresponding output signals by field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for the LC-based LWA. Based on the proposed framework, a verification system is tested, which demonstrates that the radiation characteristic can be effectively controlled by the user’s gesture. This work supplies a novel way for intelligent beam scanning antennas with potential applications in the internet of things (IoT), satellite and 5 G/6 G communications.

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