This repository is a part of the Rotary Head project. It was developed at the Gdańsk University of Technology. The other parts of the project can be found in the following repositories:
There is the article titled "A Low-Cost System for Far-Field Non-Anechoic Measurements of Antenna Performance Figures" which discusses results obtained using Rotary Heads.
All software is written in Python. The repository contains the following items:
- Rotary Head driver
- Anritsu MS20xxC driver
- Command Line Interface program
- Example script
You can use the CLI (Command Line Interface) by running python -m antenna_meas_cli.cli command. All available options are listed in the features section and can be explored using the --help switch added to the command.
- Listing available devices (both Rotary Tables and VNAs)
- Automatic measurement of an antenna characteristic
- Save measurement to a S2P file
- Live display of the measurement on the plot
- Stop the Rotary Table on program exit
The example script can be found in src/ directory. It performs the following actions:
- initializes communication with the Rotary Table and the VNA,
- prepares both devices for a measurement,
- takes a measurement of an antenna characteristic,
- rotates an antenna back to its home position.
- Python v3.9
- NI-VISA driver v21.0 (https://www.ni.com/pl-pl/support/downloads/drivers/download.ni-visa.html#409839)
- pyvisa v1.11
- scikit-rf v0.19
- click v8.0
- crc8 v0.1
- pyserial v3.5
- pytest v6.2 (only for a testing purpose)