The present repository contains the source code of the HERAS tool.
HERAS is a tool developed in Matlab for the analysis of reflector antennas using Physical Optics (PO) theory. Its source code is freely available for educational and research purposes. It comes from the necessity of a flexible tool to provide adaptability to system engineering requirements and can also be of interest to antenna engineers working on the design of reflector antennas.
The current version contains a subset of the developed classes, and additional ones will be included in future releases.
The tool has been developed by PhD students at Heriot-Watt University, under the supervision of Prof. George Goussetis. For more information on the current and past research activities carried out by the Microwaves and Antenna Engineering Group, check our website.
In particular, the following have contributed to its development:
- Salvador Mercader Pellicer;
- Louis Dufour;
- Alejandro Baldominos;
- Francesco Lisi.
The HERAS tool has been successfully used to validate the results detailed in the following papers
[1] S. Mercader Pellicer, G. Goussetis, G.M. Medero, H. Legay, D. Bresciani, N.J.G. Fonseca, “Cross-Polarization Reduction of Linear-to-Circular Polarizing Reflective Surfaces,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 18, No. 7, pp. 1527-1531, July 2019.
[2] S. Mercader-Pellicer, W. Tang, D. Bresciani, H. Legay, N.J.G. Fonseca, G. Goussetis, “Angularly Stable Linear-to-Circular Polarizing Reflectors for Multiple Beam Antennas,” IEEE Transactions Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 68, No. 8, pp. 4380-4389, August 2021.
[3] A. Baldominos, G. Goussetis, A. Mengali, and N. J. Fonseca, “Efficient estimation of multibeam coverage from an array fed reflector,” 2022 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Numerical Electromagnetic and Multiphysics Modeling and Optimization, NEMO 2022, 2022.
[4] A. Baldominos, A. Mengali, N. J. Fonseca, and G. Goussetis, “Evaluation of array fed reflector architectures for broadband satellite missions,” 2021 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, ISAP 2021, 2021.
[5] A. Segneri, A. Baldominos, G. Goussetis, A. Mengali, and N. J. Fonseca, “Closed-form power normalization methods for a satellite mimo system,” Sensors 2022, Vol. 22, Page 2586, vol. 22, p. 2586, 3 2022.