AntennaFlow: A Generative Flow Model for Offset Correction in Phaseless Antenna Testing

📅 2026-09-15
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为解决毫米波天线测试中的相位获取成本高和偏移安装问题,提出AntennaFlow模型,通过三阶段框架实现无相位、无偏移向量的近远场转换。
📝 Abstract
Near-field to far-field transformation is central to large-aperture antenna testing, yet two coupled challenges remain: costly phase acquisition at millimeter-wave bands and violations of the centering assumption under offset mounting. Existing methods address these issues separately, requiring either dense full-field data or offset vectors. We tackle both jointly by exploiting a key observation: amplitude fields under different offsets are coordinate-transformed views of the same near field. The challenge is to recover the center-aligned field from offset amplitudes without a phase or offset vector. We propose AntennaFlow, a three-stage framework: a contrastively learned encoder that maps offset views to an offset-invariant embedding, a deterministic flow-matching transport that maps offset amplitudes to center-aligned ones, and the Simplified Extrapolation Technique, whose Green-function Taylor expansion is valid only for centered fields. Experiments show that AntennaFlow enables fast, phaseless, offset-vector-free NF--FF reconstruction from sparse amplitude-only measurements, consistently outperforming existing baselines while preserving physical consistency.
Problem

Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.

phaseless antenna testing
offset correction
near-field to far-field transformation
Innovation

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Generative Flow Model
Phaseless Antenna Testing
Offset Correction
Contrastive Learning
Amplitude-only Measurements
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Yongzhi Li
College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Chongting Shen
Beihang Sino-French Engineer School, Beihang University, Beijing, China
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Menglin Chen
Beihang Sino-French Engineer School, Beihang University, Beijing, China
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Xun Jiang
School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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Zhengpeng Wang
Electronic Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China