Ray Tracing getting rays on each individual array element

Hello, I'd like to ask the following: Lets suppose that we have a ray tracing problem in matlab where the receiver antenna in rxsite is an array/ phased array etc. Is it possible to acquire the rays that reach each individual element of the array in the ray tracing propagation problem ? (not the rays that arrive in the rxsite but specifically the rays on each element).

Thank you

Answer 1

[Gowtham]

Hello Stavros,

I understand that you want to know if it is possible to acquire the rays of each individual element of the array (in the receiver antenna in txsite) in a ray tracing propagation problem.

Let us consider the txsite (transmitter) that has an antenna, which can be accessed through the Antenna property. The antenna can be represented in the form of an array.

To display the 3-D antenna radiation pattern for the transmitter site, we can utilize the pattern function from the Antenna Toolbox. This function can be applied to a specific antenna.

Moreover, if we wish to access the propagation path, we can use the raytrace method from the Antenna Toolbox, which returns a Ray configuration.

Kindly refer to the following MATLAB documentation for further understanding on txsite, pattern and raytrace

• https://www.mathworks.com/help/antenna/ref/txsite.html
• https://www.mathworks.com/help/antenna/ref/txsite.pattern.html
• https://www.mathworks.com/help/antenna/ref/txsite.raytrace.html

Hope this helps.

Best Regards,

Gowtham

[Stavros Tsimpoukis]

Sorry for the misunderstanding, my mistake. I would like to acquire the rays arriving at each individual array element on the receiver antenna-rxsite.