A Portable UAV Tracking System for Communications and Video Transmission

Changoluisa, I. D.; Barzallo, Jose; Pantoja, Jorge; Cayo, Santiago; Navarro-Méndez, Diana V.; Cruz, Patricio J.

doi:10.1109/ccac.2019.8921053

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“…Regulation of bandwidth c. Procedures of lost link In all the fields which are UAS related, it must be provided with a number of recovery means in case of lost link. The aim is to make sure that airborne operations are predictable in case of lost links [3]. d. Flight termination system For ensuring overall safety and a system, the desired characteristics are redundancies and independent functioning nature.…”

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“…Unmanned Aircraft Systems are also named as Unmanned Aerial Systems [2]. This type of system comprises of air vehicles and equipments that are associated to it [3]. No human operator is carried by this class of system [4].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As Figure 1 depicts the different components like flight control and operating system which furthermore comprises different control stations, data terminals, communicating links, launching and recovering elements and so on [3]. UAS serves itself in different fields like aerial means, photography, air traffic, weathering, military, navy and airforce missions, agriculture, forestry and many more.…”

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An analytical view on Unmanned Aircraft Systems

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2024

Comput. Telecommun. Eng.

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<p>Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) is a booming technology with a future perspective and does have a huge S potential to transfigure warfare and enable up to date civilian applications. It furthermore matures in a technological way as to be impinged into the civil society. In 2010, the importance of scientific applications in the respective field was demonstrated by DOD in the contemporary years. In recent years, UAS has played an integral role in a number of missions that are public like law enforcement which is local, board surveillance, weather monitoring, wildlife surveys, military training. UAS do force some challenges which are numbered as lacking a pilot which is on-board in order to see and hence avoiding supplemental aircrafts and furthermore, the extensive discrepancy in the missions related to UAS and in order to implement the operations in NextGen time frame impinged in NAS, the capabilities of the respective topic must be communicated. The applications of UAS are numbered as Ariel Mapping and Meteorology, intelligence, remote sensing, surveillance and reconnaissance, environmental monitoring and agriculture, border security, security applications and law enforcement, counter insurgency, electronic attacks, attack strike, communication relay, target identification and designation. Via this survey paper, it can be concluded that UAS is emerging as a valuable and helpful technology having tremendous potential for revolting warfare and enabling new applications w.r.t the UAS field.<strong></strong></p>

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An analytical view on Unmanned Aircraft Systems

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“…Using models, such as haversine distance and bearing formula, spherical trigonometry, calculation for the azimuth angle, elevation angle, and distance of the UAV from the tracking system, can be calculated. Their advantages resonate around its high precision and accuracy [ 31 , 89 , 107 , 108 ]. Many others built an antenna tracker using GPS technology.…”

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The Recent Advancement in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Tracking Antenna: A Review

Kelechi¹,

Alsharif

Oluwole³

et al. 2021

Sensors

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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) antenna tracking system is an electromechanical component designed to track and steer the signal beams from the ground control station (GCS) to the airborne platform for optimum signal alignment. In a tracking system, an antenna continuously tracks a moving target and records their position. A UAV tracking antenna system is susceptible to signal loss if omnidirectional antenna is deployed as the preferred design. Therefore, to achieve longer UAV distance communication, there is a need for directional high gain antenna. From design principle, directional antennas are known to focus their signal energy in a particular direction viewed from their radiation pattern which is concentrated in a particular azimuth direction. Unfortunately, a directional antenna is limited by angle, thus, it must always be directed to the target. The other limitation of a UAV mechanical beam steering system is that the system is expensive to maintain and with low reliability. To solve this problem, we are proposing the use of MIMO technology as a readily available technology for UAV beyond line of sight technology. Although UAV antenna tracking is domiciled in the mechanical beam steering arrangement, this study shows that this native technology could be usurped by MIMO beam forming.

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“…The UAV’s telemetry data must be collected continuously and simultaneously; otherwise, the tracking will fail. The GPS-based tracking algorithms were also widely applied to A2G communication systems with directional antennas (Changoluisa et al, 2019; Firmansyah et al, 2020; Riyandi et al, 2018). The most fundamental deficiency of this method using GPS data is that telemetry packets containing the position data of the UAV must be received in a timely manner.…”

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A novel elliptic trajectory formula for active RSSI-based antenna tracking algorithm

İşcan

Tas

Gurkan

et al. 2023

Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control

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In this study, a novel received signal strength indicator (RSSI)-based tracking algorithm for antenna tracker systems utilizing directional antennas is proposed. This system has two sequential phases, which are the “Full Area Scan Phase” and the “Active RSSI-Based Tracking Phase” with a unique elliptic trajectory formula for generating an original two-dimensional (2D) RSSI map to detect the maximum signal. An elliptic trajectory paves the way for splitting RSSI measurements into specific regions equally on this map in which any disturbance and noises are eliminated. The proposed method do not require any telemetry data or multiple receivers for antennas. The simulation results showed that the algorithm attained to 98 % accuracy with respect to the Global Positioning System (GPS)-based ones. In real-world experiments, it captures the first handshake signal within 6 seconds even when the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) positions are uncertain. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that this novel technique can provide a continuous tracking at high resolution with the error value of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] in the elevation and azimuth axes, respectively, compared with the GPS-based one. In conclusion, the simulation and test studies indicated that the proposed method could achieve a higher precision tracking with its advantages against the former methods.

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A Portable UAV Tracking System for Communications and Video Transmission

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An analytical view on Unmanned Aircraft Systems

An analytical view on Unmanned Aircraft Systems

The Recent Advancement in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Tracking Antenna: A Review

A novel elliptic trajectory formula for active RSSI-based antenna tracking algorithm

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