Experimental Evaluation of Geometry and Reciprocity-Based Beamforming with Large Arrays for RF Wireless Power Transfer
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| author | Callebaut, Gilles Van Mulders, Jarne |
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| contents | This paper experimentally investigates geometry-based multi-antenna RF wireless power transfer (WPT) using a large-scale distributed indoor transmit array measuring 8 m by 4 m. Geometry-based beamforming uses known transmitter and receiver positions to perform phase-only precoding, avoiding the need for explicit channel estimation or feedback. The experiments use a ceiling-mounted array of 41 phase-synchronized transmit antennas operating at 920 MHz. Geometry-based beamforming is compared with channel state information (CSI)-based beamforming. The spatial power delivery is evaluated through two-dimensional scans over an area of 1.25 m by 1.25 m. The harvested DC power is measured using an RF-to-DC energy profiler. Under line-of-sight (LoS) conditions, geometry-based beamforming achieves a power gain of 18.75 dB, which is within 0.82 dB of CSI-based beamforming. In obstructed LoS scenarios with reflections, the gain decreases to 16.7 dB, while CSI-based beamforming achieves 20.53 dB, resulting in a performance gap of 3.83 dB. These results quantify the trade-off between reduced system overhead and robustness to multipath propagation in geometry-driven WPT, and represent an initial step toward geometry-based wireless power transfer enabled by digital twins. |
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| spellingShingle | Experimental Evaluation of Geometry and Reciprocity-Based Beamforming with Large Arrays for RF Wireless Power Transfer Callebaut, Gilles Van Mulders, Jarne Signal Processing This paper experimentally investigates geometry-based multi-antenna RF wireless power transfer (WPT) using a large-scale distributed indoor transmit array measuring 8 m by 4 m. Geometry-based beamforming uses known transmitter and receiver positions to perform phase-only precoding, avoiding the need for explicit channel estimation or feedback. The experiments use a ceiling-mounted array of 41 phase-synchronized transmit antennas operating at 920 MHz. Geometry-based beamforming is compared with channel state information (CSI)-based beamforming. The spatial power delivery is evaluated through two-dimensional scans over an area of 1.25 m by 1.25 m. The harvested DC power is measured using an RF-to-DC energy profiler. Under line-of-sight (LoS) conditions, geometry-based beamforming achieves a power gain of 18.75 dB, which is within 0.82 dB of CSI-based beamforming. In obstructed LoS scenarios with reflections, the gain decreases to 16.7 dB, while CSI-based beamforming achieves 20.53 dB, resulting in a performance gap of 3.83 dB. These results quantify the trade-off between reduced system overhead and robustness to multipath propagation in geometry-driven WPT, and represent an initial step toward geometry-based wireless power transfer enabled by digital twins. |
| title | Experimental Evaluation of Geometry and Reciprocity-Based Beamforming with Large Arrays for RF Wireless Power Transfer |
| topic | Signal Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11159 |