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Remi Sarkis

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

M.s. in Management


Université catholique de Louvain


Funded Projects
 NCRT

STARRS Project (2006-2008)

  • Description: STARRS is a European project that focuses on the design and development of technology for the improvement of environmental risk/crisis management, especially in search and rescue operations (to detect and locate victims' position with a good accuracy as well as to allow alert broadcasting to people in emergency situations.) People in danger will be detected, located and rescued through their basic cellular radio handsets (GSM and UMTS mobile phones). Additionally, headquarters of rescue teams will be able to know the location of rescuers within the intervention area through their professional handsets (TETRA and TETRAPOL mobile handsets).

  • STARRS Antenna Tasks:

    • Design and manufacturing of triple band antenna array suitable to be mounted on helicopter and covering the frequency bands: GSM (890-915MHz), DCS (1710-1760MHz) and UMTS (1920-1960MHz).

    • Design and manufacturing of triple band portable antenna array suitable for pedestrian search and rescue missions and covering the frequency bands: GSM, DCS and UMTS.

    • Design and manufacturing of compact single band antenna array for the localisation of TETRA (380-400MHz) professional mobiles.

  • My contribution to STARRS: I was in charge of all the antenna development for the STARRS project. My work included proposing microstrip antenna design concepts, numerical simulations using CST, manufacturing, testing and measurements of the antenna arrays. Additionally, I proposed coupling correction matrixes for the calibration of the mutual coupling effects in the compact arrays. Successful demonstrations of this project were shown in November 2008 and reported in two TV programs.
STARRS_helicopter
Triple band antenna array mounted on helicopter.
STARRS_pedestrian
Triple band antenna array for pedestrian search and rescue missions.