Educational software tool for the generation of Quasi-Random urban scenarios applied to electromagnetic computer simulation

Abstract

This document presents the development of a didactic software tool used as a platform for the generation of complex urban scenarios based on probabilistic user-defined parameters. An adaptive algorithm and a set of primitive elements have been developed in order to allow the user to define the complexity and main features of the scenario and obtain a script containing the geometric elements that conform the resulting geometry. This tool has been developed by undergraduate students and is the result of a number of multidisciplinary projects. It is used in undergraduate and graduate teaching programs in order to perform multipath ray tracing analyses, validate propagation models, analyze the multipath channel characteristics or study the performance of MIMO antennas, among others.