Unmanned aerial vehicle based agile optical beam steering system

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis F. DeSandre ◽  
Harold E. Bennett ◽  
Howard Hyman
Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (16) ◽  
pp. 5662
Author(s):  
Anabi Hilary Kelechi ◽  
Mohammed H. Alsharif ◽  
Damilare Abdulbasit Oluwole ◽  
Philip Achimugu ◽  
Osichinaka Ubadike ◽  
...  

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.


Author(s):  
Jinwoo Park ◽  
Byunggil Yu ◽  
Euntae Jung ◽  
Ilhyun Park ◽  
Jongwoo Seo ◽  
...  

In this paper, an array antenna for LOS datalink for mounting UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) of low-probability of intercept is presented. For low RCS, radome was designed by conformal form, and other components were inserted into the UAV. The antenna of the transmitter and receiver are each composed of 12×12 array antennas, and include a beam steering function by controlling the phase of the unit element for the Uni-directional pattern and the Bi-directional pattern. As a result of the measurement of the manufactured antenna, it was confirmed that all the required specifications were met, and the installing possibility of the UAV platform on low-probability of intercept in the future was confirmed.


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 332-342
Author(s):  
Hyung Jun Park ◽  
Seong Hee Cho ◽  
Kyung-Hwan Jang ◽  
Jin-Woon Seol ◽  
Byung-Gi Kwon ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
Anton M. Mishchenko ◽  
Sergei S. Rachkovsky ◽  
Vladimir A. Smolin ◽  
Igor V . Yakimenko

Results of experimental studying radiation spatial structure of atmosphere background nonuniformities and of an unmanned aerial vehicle being the detection object are presented. The question on a possibility of its detection using optoelectronic systems against the background of a cloudy field in the near IR wavelength range is also considered.


Author(s):  
Amir Birjandi ◽  
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Valentin Guerry ◽  
Eric Bibeau ◽  
Hamidreza Bolandhemmat ◽  
...  

2010 ◽  
Vol 130 (4) ◽  
pp. 107-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshiyuki Watanabe ◽  
Yutaka Abe ◽  
Shinnosuke Iwamatsu ◽  
Seiya Kobayashi ◽  
Yoshiyuki Takahashi ◽  
...  

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