土壤及标签贴附方式对RFID标签性能影响

超高频射频识别(Ultra High Frequency Radio Frequency Identification,UHF RFID)应用于土壤样品管理可大幅度提升管理信息化水平,然而土壤及标签天线贴附方式都对超高频RFID标签天线性能有影响。采用电磁仿真软件Ansoft HFSS对超高频RFID标签天线的性能进行仿真分析,并通过天线理论探究了标签贴附方式、样品瓶中土壤含量对于标签天线性能的影响。结果表明,标签天线垂直放置时会导致标签天线方向图发生较大改变;土壤会影响标签天线输入阻抗,改变标签天线识别距离,并引起标签天线失谐;同时发现土壤与标签相对位置的不同对标签天线性能的影响也有所不同。     

行李箱材质对行李RFID识别效果影响的研究

机场行李分拣系统使用RFID技术进行行李识别时,常遇到RFID行李标签贴紧行李箱表面时识别率降低的情况。针对该问题,研究了RFID行李标签天线和行李箱材质,在MATLAB软件中建立RFID行李标签天线紧贴在与行李箱材质相当的介质表面的模型,并进行仿真。仿真结果表明,介质材料的存在会使RFID行李标签天线的性能发生变化。当RFID行李标签紧贴在行李箱表面时,行李箱材质会影响RFID识别设备的识别效果。     

开槽圆环型无芯片射频识别标签结构的设计

设计分析了一种圆环开槽型的无芯片射频识别RFID(Radio Frequency Identification)标签。这种圆环开槽型结构具有高度的对称性,无需考虑入射波的极化方式。对散射得到的时域信号进行极点的提取。根据极点与标签结构的对应关系,主要极点提供了嵌入在标签结构中的基本数据,通过主要极点来对标签的结构进行识别。通过仿真分析可知,这种标签结构可达到4 bit的编码,可成为一种新型无芯片RFID标签结构。     

一种基于超高频RFID的无线无源压力传感器

电力设备在长期运行中,受环境影响,可能会发生失压、形变现象。针对这种现象,设计了一种基于UHF RFID的无线无源压力传感器,能够在不接触电力设备的情况下获得设备的表面压力信息。基于UHF RFID的压力传感器标签主要由阻抗自适应RFID芯片、UHF频段RFID偶极子天线、金属极板和支撑弹簧构成。电力设备的形变会导致安装在设备上的金属极板与偶极子天线的相对位置变化,导致RFID天线的阻抗变化,RFID芯片内部会通过自动调节输入阻抗电容以匹配RFID天线阻抗的变换。通过检测RFID芯片内部匹配阻抗的电容值,可以推出电力设备的形变情况,形成一一对应的关系,从而实现无线无源压力传感功能。     

小型RFID偶极子天线设计与优化

无源RFID标签的读写性能主要取决于其天线和芯片的性能,其中超高频RFID标签通常采用偶极子天线。从理论-仿真-实验的角度详细介绍了偶极子天线的设计和优化方法,并制作了4款小型超高频RFID标签样品。测试结果表明,4款样品标签的性能与仿真的优化结果高度一致,该设计和优化方法可行。     

一种RFID标签天线的设计

随着无线通信理论和关键技术的发展,RFID技术的应用越来越受到重视。简要介绍了RFID天线的应用背景和RFID标签的工作原理,指出了读写器的天线对RFID系统的重要性,着重分析了矩形贴片天线理论模型的辐射性能,提出了一款新型的RFID标签贴片天线,同时展望了RFID技术在未来广阔的应用前景。     

沈阳自动化研究所无芯片RFID标签天线印制技术获得成功

由沈阳自动化研究所工业信息学研究室研发的无芯片RFID标签天线印制技术获得成功,该标签天线的成功印制对于实现无芯片RFID标签的完全印制及促进物联网的大规模应具有重要的意义。     

单层超宽带微带贴片天线的设计与分析

该文提出了一种新颖超宽带微带天线。该天线由微带宽槽天线的基本结构变形而来,其结构由矩形馈电微带贴片与矩形宽槽孔贴片组成。矩形宽槽孔开在金属GND板上,而矩形馈电贴片在介质板的另一面并在矩形宽槽孔框内偏下方。贴片与馈电线对接处采用渐变结构来达到阻抗匹配。以矩形宽槽尺寸为主构成了低频段的等效谐振电长度,而馈电贴片尺寸构成了高频段的等效谐振电长度。在各自的谐振频区上,矩形宽槽与馈电微带贴片两者相互耦合,构成两谐振电长度的天线叠合组成为一共面天线,从而拓展了天线的带宽。该文运用HFSS仿真软件,根据设定尺寸进行了仿真设计,制备了两只不同频段的样品天线。仿真结果和实验结果基本一致,表明该原理设计出的天线可实现超宽带特性。     

三维环绕追踪式RFID识别系统的研究

由于货物自身的遮挡和工作现场的各种干扰,多个RFID标签同时进行识别时存在很高的漏读率,影响了RFID系统的可靠性。针对这一问题,提出了三维环绕追踪式RFID识别系统。采用四个阅读天线两两相对,以三维立体的方式安装在阅读通道形成一个天线门。在货物从阅读区域的入口移动到出口的整个过程中进行连续追踪式的环绕读取,最大限度减少因遮挡而形成的识别盲点,增大信号覆盖范围,从而降低RFID标签漏读率。同时建立了基于三维天线的追踪识别控制流程。实验结果表明:三维环绕追踪式RFID识别系统对降低多个RFID标签集中识别的漏读率有明显的效果,为RFID识别系统在高速物流领域的商用提供了新的方法。     

直接透视——RFID系统能够确保耗材生产流程的透明度及可追溯性

RFID是什么RFID是Radio Frequency Identification的缩写,即射频识别。射频识别是一种非接触式的自动识别技术,它通过射频信号自动识别目标对象并获取相关数据,识别工作无须人工干预,可工作于各种恶劣环境。RFID技术可识别高速运动物体并可同时识别多个标签,操作快捷方便。     

宽频带高增益RFID微带天线阵设计

设计了一种宽频带高增益微带天线单元并组成了4元阵列。通过在普通矩形微带贴片加载2个对称切角、改变贴片表面电流分布实现天线单元的双频工作,调节切角尺寸使两个频点相互靠近融合,展宽频带。在此基础上确定合适的阵元间距,采用等副同向并联馈电,馈电网络由T型结功分器组成,并使用同轴探针馈电方式,实现天线阵列的设计。通过高频电磁结构仿真软件HFSS对天线进行仿真和优化,结果表明阵列天线性能良好。     

基于相控阵天线的RFID系统设计

设计了一种可扩展阅读范围的相控阵天线RFID系统。采用Intel R1000阅读器开发平台、MASWSS0204开关芯片,研制了功率分配器、移相器、天线阵,搭建了符合ISO 18000-6C和EPC globalGen 2标准、中心频率为915 MHz RFID阅读器系统。系统引入相控阵原理,并对阅读器进行了简单改动,设计了相控阵RFID系统的硬件组成结构和软件工作流程。设计的相控天线阵列由2×2个微带天线单元、3个功率分配器和1个移相器组成,使用FR4介质板材料制作。实验结果表明,该系统增大了RFID信号的覆盖范围。     

A single sided dual‐antenna structure for UHF RFID tag applications

In this article, a dual‐antenna structure is presented for UHF RFID tag. The proposed structure is made of two L‐shaped strip antennas along with a cross‐shaped slot loaded patch. One antenna is exclusively used for receiving and harvesting full energy with complex conjugate of tag chip, whereas another used as backscatter to enhance maximum differential radar cross section with purely real input impedance, which results in the enhancement of read range. Further, electromagnetic band gap structure is used around the dual‐antenna structure to increase the gain which results in improved read range. The proposed antennas are fabricated and the S‐parameters are measured with the help of differential probe technique. Simulation and measurement results are found in good agreement. The performance of the proposed antenna is also investigated when it placed on different materials such as metal, wood, glass, and plastic. The study shows that the read range of antenna increases considerably when it is mounted on a metallic surface, while the maximum performance is observed when the antenna is attached on a glass surface with highest relative permittivity. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 25:619–628, 2015.     

A low profile aperture coupled antenna with broadband circular polarization characteristics for UHF RFID applications

An aperture coupled microstrip‐line fed antenna (circular patch) with CP radiation is initially investigated. To achieve good CP radiation at 925 MHz UHF RFID frequency, the technique of loading an inverted C‐shaped slit into the circular patch is initially proposed. By further loading an open eccentric‐ring shaped parasitic element around the circular patch, an additional CP frequency can be excited at 910 MHz, and by combining these two CP frequencies, broad CP bandwidth that can cover the entire 902‐928 MHz UHF RFID band is achieved. Because of the parasitic element, the total dimension of proposed antenna is modified to 170 × 170 × 11.4 mm³. From the measured results, the impedance and CP bandwidths of the proposed antenna were 9.4% (859‐944 MHz) and 3.1% (902‐930 MHz). Furthermore, its corresponding peak gain and efficiency are 5.9 dBic and 84.3%, respectively. Further analyses have shown that the proposed antenna can also achieve good CP frequency agility across the desired UHF RFID operating band (902‐928 MHz).     

Development of a novel radio frequency identification chipless tag with multifrequency response

This article presents an innovative contribution, which is the design of a novel radio frequency identification chipless tag characterized by a reduced size and a multifrequency response. It consists of a microstrip grounded structure based on a circular patch coupled with meandered metal strip. The adopted approach is an encoding frequency approach that ensures a capacity of 20 data bits in the ultra wideband. The main aim of this contribution is to introduce a novel configuration resulting from the study of the classic principles of the chipless tag design. It focuses on the design of an encoding surface associated with the same shape having the role of the transmitter/receiver antenna in order to mainly gain time to work on another tag component. The tag is analyzed, optimized, and measured to validate its feasibility and to prove the possibility of its commercial application.     

Compact size flexible UHF RFID tag antenna for racing pigeon ring applications

A very small size radio frequency identification (RFID) tag antenna specifically designed for racing pigeon ring applications is proposed. The structure of this UHF tag is a closed‐loop type printed on a 30 × 8 mm² polyimide film of thickness 0.063 mm. Thus, it can be wrapped into a double layer plastic cylindrical ring of size similar to those used for racing pigeon. By simply tuning the inner width of the loop, good conjugate matching between the tag chip input impedance and the tag antenna can be achieved. When mounted onto a real preserved dried pigeon feet specimen, the measured impedance bandwidth of the tag antenna was 901‐929 MHz. Further experimental results have also shown that the proposed antenna has a maximum reading range of up to 50 cm.     

Ultra‐high‐frequency radio frequency identification tag antenna applied for human body and water surfaces

A novel ultra‐high‐frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID) tag antenna has been proposed in this article, which can be mounted on the surfaces of the human body and water. The proposed antenna is realized by an elliptical structure, whose long and short axes are 72 and 30 mm, respectively. The tag antenna consists of an elliptical loop radiation element, microstrip feed lines, arc matching networks, and tuning patches. We have analyzed the antenna radiation characteristics influenced by the structural parameters of the antenna and the thicknesses of the human body and water. The simulation and measurement results show that the proposed antenna can operate steadily on the surfaces of the human body and water with good conjugate impedance matching. The maximum measured reading range of the tag antenna on the surfaces of the human body and water can reach 5 and 7 m, respectively. The novelties exhibited in the proposed antenna include an elliptical structure, the stable performance on the surfaces of the human body and water, small size, and long reading range.     

A high capacity tunable retransmission type frequency coded chipless radio frequency identification system

This article presents a 12‐bit frequency coded chipless RFID system in the frequency range of 3 to 6 GHz. The system consists of a fully printable chipless tag and a pair of high‐gain reader antennas. The tag also incorporates its own antennas to improve the read range. Information is encoded into frequency spectrum using a multi‐resonant circuit. The circuit consists of multiple microstrip U and L‐shaped open stub resonators patterned in a unique configuration. The proposed configuration aids in capturing more data in a reduced space as well as tunable frequency operation. Tag and reader antennas utilize techniques such as stepped impedance feeding line, defective partial ground plane, and stair‐step patch structure to achieve wide‐band impedance bandwidth in miniature size. The results of the wireless measurements in the non‐anechoic environment show that the proposed system has a reading range of more than 20 cm. The presented system possesses great potential for low‐cost short‐range inventory tracking.     

超高频RFID标签一致性的近场检测技术

超高频RFID标签一致性直接影响RFID系统中采集数据的识别率和准确率。采用接收信号强度指示RSSI(Received Signal Strength Indicator)技术及数理统计,采集标签反射信号强度,设定标准差阈值,作为标签一致性检测参数。研制弯折偶极子近场天线,实现0.1 mm近距离标签识读。利用屏蔽效应,在全自动卷筒式RFID标签套装上设置打点标识机构,对标签批量标记,可实现对柔性超高频RFID标签的高速、批量一致性检测。