BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Emerging Technologies: The Impact of Modern Robotics\, Data Analys is\, and CEM Simulation on Antenna and EMC Measurements in 2021 and Beyond ! DTSTART:20201215T170000 DTEND:20201215T183000 DTSTAMP:20260928T184140Z UID:2ac7227d7bd1623b8a4f2e64725a88371b6ea1105b28b02afad69cf1 CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars DESCRIPTION:Professor Stuart Gregson has more than twenty five years of e xperience working in the space\, aerospace\, and communications sectors an d is currently Director of Operations and Research at Next Phase Measureme nts LLC\, and an honorary visiting professor in the School of Electronic E ngineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London. He rec eived his BSc degree in Physics in 1994 and his MSc degree in Microwave So lid State Physics in 1995 both from the University of Portsmouth. He recei ved his PhD degree in 2003 from Queen Mary University of London with near- field antenna measurements as his main subject area.  Prof. Gregson has d eveloped special experience with near-field antenna measurements\, finite array mutual coupling\, computational electromagnetics\, installed antenna and radome performance prediction\, compact antenna test range design & s imulation\, electromagnetic scattering\, 5G OTA measurements and has over 100 peer-reviewed papers on these topics regularly contributing to and org anizing industrial courses on these subject areas.  At the end of 2007 he was the lead author of a research text entitled\, Principles of Planar Ne ar-Field Antenna Measurements\, and in 2014 he co-authored a second text\, Theory and Practice of Modern Antenna Range Measurements\, which is now e ntering its 2nd edition.  He is a Fellow of AMTA\, a Fellow of the Instit ution of Engineering and Technology\, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and is a chartered Engineer and Physicist.  In 2018\, Prof. Gregson was elected to the AMTA Board of Directors where he is currently serving as Tr easurer.\n\n \n\nMr. Jason Bommer is a Lead Application Engineer with An sys\, providing technical support in high frequency electromagnetics (EM) and Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) applications. Jason holds a BS degr ee in Physics from the University of New Orleans and MS degree in Applied Physics from the University of Washington in Seattle.  He has over 20 yea rs of experience developing and applying computational electromagnetic too ls to a wide variety of high frequency problems.  Prior to Ansys\, Jason served as an electromagnetics engineer with Boeing Research and Technology \, where he supported multiple programs in the defense\, space and commerc ial business units. He holds publications and patents in sensors\, energy harvesting\, and nondestructive inspection techniques. Jason is also an ad junct instructor at the School of Industrial Design\, Engineering and Art (IDEA) in Tacoma WA\, where he teaches physics-based simulation and virtua l prototyping.\nEmerging Technologies:  The Impact of Modern Robotics\, D ata Analysis\, and CEM Simulation on Antenna and EMC Measurements in 2021 and Beyond!\n\nDate and Time: 15 December 2020\n\n17:00               Welcome and Announcements – Mr. Dennis Lewis\, Technical Fellow\, The Boeing Company\, Seattle\, WA\; Chair of the IEEE EMC Society Seattle Chapter\n17:05             Traditional to Modern Antenna Test Envi ronments: Overview of a New Dual Multi-Axis Robotic Antenna Test System Hi ghlighting the Impact of Modern Robotics and CEM Simulation  – Profess or Stuart Gregson\, Director of Operations and Research\, Next Phase Measu rements LLC\, Garden Grove\, CA\n17:30             Extending the U sable Low Frequency Range of an Anechoic Chamber for Antenna Calibrations Using a Time Domain Deconvolution Filter – Mr. Zhong Chen\, Director o f RF Engineering\, ETS-Lindgren\, Cedar Park\, TX\n17:50             An Overview of Hybrid Computational Techniques for Antenna Measurement System Design By Mr. Jason Bommer\, Lead Application Engineer\, Ansys\, Seattle\, WA\n18:10           Q&A with the Speakers – Moder ated by Mr. Lewis\n18:30           Wrap Up/Final Comments\n\n\nAbstra ct: Traditional antenna test facilities are designed with a specific meas urement application in mind.  As a result\, these facilities tend to have fixed measurement geometries with much of the range performance analysis being performed only once\, during the design phase of the test facilities implementation.  Modern antenna measurement ranges employing multi-axis robotic positioners provide a near limitless degree of re-configurability in terms of measurement types and scan geometries.  This drives an ongoin g need to evaluate each unique setup and application.  Model Based System s Engineering and Development (MBSE/MBD) approaches can be employed to dra matically reduce the time\, effort\, and cost associated with the test dev elopment and validation phases of a given program.  This presentation pro vides an overview of a new dual multi-axis robotic antenna test system tha t utilizes the novel coordinated use of a pair of 6-axis robots and MBSE/M BD system engineering within its development.  A detailed description of this system that considers the mechanical\, RF\, safety\, and data process ing aspects of the system is presented.  The use of this system in the ac quisition of spherical\, cylindrical\, and variable orientation planar nea r-field data as well as far-field and extrapolated gain measurements is pr esented and discussed with the use of CEM during the development program b eing highlighted.\n\nAbstract: Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) aff ords significant benefits to the design and optimization of antenna measur ement and calibration systems. Through complementary numerical techniques such as the finite element method (FEM)\, integral equations (IE)\, finite element boundary integral (FEBI)\, as well as shooting and bouncing rays (SBR)\, one can gain significant insight on performance even before the me asurement facility is constructed or the system fully configured. This can reduce or eliminate significant test burden such as initial reference mea surements along with associated costs. Furthermore\, by combining full wav e and asymptotic techniques it is feasible to construct virtual prototypes that are computationally practical even at enormous scale and electrical size.  Along with ever-increasing capacity for numerical simulation on hi gh performance computing (HPC) and cloud infrastructure\, the application of a hybrid technique appropriately matches problem size with no compromis e on accuracy.   LOCATION: STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR