Stratospheric Balloon Attitude and Position Determination System Based on the VHF Omnidirectional Range Signal Processing: TARDIS experiment

Palo, Luigi di; Bandini, Veronica; Bedetti, Emanuele; Broggi, Giulia; Collettini, Luca; Celesti, Paola; Ienno, Davide Di; Garofalo, Riccardo; Iovanna, Francesco; Mattei, G.; Marzioli, Paolo; Piergentili, Fabrizio; Santoni, Fábio

doi:10.1109/metroaerospace.2019.8869649

Cited by 4 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 9 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…This can be exploited for pointing antennas or cameras towards a specific target. This would make the VOR exploitable as stratospheric positioning and attitude determination system [33].…”

Section: Applicability Of the Conducted Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experimental validation of VOR (VHF Omni Range) navigation system for stratospheric flight

et al. 2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…This can be exploited for pointing antennas or cameras towards a specific target. This would make the VOR exploitable as stratospheric positioning and attitude determination system [33].…”

Section: Applicability Of the Conducted Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experimental validation of VOR (VHF Omni Range) navigation system for stratospheric flight

et al. 2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…After STRATONAV, other experiments have been conceived and developed at S5Lab to perform SDR-based tracking of stratospheric balloons. For example, a further experiment developed by S5Lab for the REXUS/BEXUS Programme, named TARDIS (Tracking and Attitude Radio-based Determination In Stratosphere [32]), was aimed at real-time determination of the position and attitude of the BEXUS gondola while in stratospheric flight through SDRs. New concept experiments on innovative tracking systems are the aim of STRAINS (Stratospheric Tracking Innovative Systems, [33]), a new experiment aimed at demonstrating large baseline Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) for stratospheric and suborbital vehicles, in the perspective of a future implementation for satellite tracking and Space Traffic Management.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

VHF Omnidirectional Range (VOR) Experimental Positioning for Stratospheric Vehicles

et al. 2021

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The usage of aeronautical radio-frequency navigational aids can support the future stratospheric aviation as back-up positioning systems. Although GNSS has been extensively redundant in the last years of space operations, radio NavAids can still be supportive of navigation and tracking for novel mission profiles. As an example, in 2016, VHF Omnidirectional Range (VOR) has been proven to work well above its standard service volume limit on a stratospheric balloon flight with the STRATONAV experiment. While VOR provides the “radial” measurement, i.e., the angle between the Magnetic North and the line between the receiver and the transmitting ground station, the intersection of two or more radials at a time allows to perform ground track reconstruction for the vehicle to be tracked. This paper reports the results from the data re-processing from STRATONAV: the acquired radials have been intersected in order to achieve positioning. The radials interfacing method, the position calculation methodology, and the data acquisition strategies from STRATONAV are reported together with the data analysis results.

show abstract

Time Difference of Arrival for stratospheric balloon tracking: design and development of the STRAINS Experiment

Palo

Garofalo

Bedetti

et al. 2020

2020 IEEE 7th International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace (MetroAeroSpace)

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Stratospheric Balloon Attitude and Position Determination System Based on the VHF Omnidirectional Range Signal Processing: TARDIS experiment

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Experimental validation of VOR (VHF Omni Range) navigation system for stratospheric flight

Experimental validation of VOR (VHF Omni Range) navigation system for stratospheric flight

VHF Omnidirectional Range (VOR) Experimental Positioning for Stratospheric Vehicles

Time Difference of Arrival for stratospheric balloon tracking: design and development of the STRAINS Experiment

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About