Aperture-coupled Bowtie Patch Antenna Design for Autonomous Driving Applications

Autonomous driving will reshape transportation networks, offering at the same time many benefits such as safety, reliable vehicle-to-vehicle communication, and extended telecommunications. For a self-driving vehicle to navigate freely and perceive its environment, it is necessary to be equipped with many sensors. Automotive radars and antenna arrays that operate at 76–81 GHz have been proposed as key elements in future autonomous vehicles. In this work, an aperture-coupled bowtie antenna is designed utilizing hunger games search optimization. The proposed element achieves quite satisfactory values of return loss and gain, as well as broadband operation at 76 GHz - 81 GHz.