TY - GEN
T1 - UAV-RT
T2 - 88th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC-Fall 2018
AU - Torabi, Amir
AU - Shafer, Michael W.
AU - Vega, Gabriel S.
AU - Rothfus, Kellan M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/7/2
Y1 - 2018/7/2
N2 - Small airborne platforms can evolve autonomous wildlife tracking by efficiently collecting data over terrain that is difficult to access. This paper presents an unmanned aerial vehicle radio telemetry (UAV-RT) system that integrates VHF radio telemetry equipment with an unmanned aerial system. The system includes a modified hexacopter, an onboard computer, an SDR receiver, a directional antenna, and a ground control station (GCS) laptop. Preliminary experiments are conducted to demonstrate the capabilities of this system and localization accuracy of the system is quantified. Principal components analysis (PCA) and radiation pattern matching (RPM) are used for bearing estimation. Impact of flight altitude and polarization of the tag on system range are investigated. It is found that raising the antenna from the ground level to 122 m more than triples the reception distance of VHF signals.
AB - Small airborne platforms can evolve autonomous wildlife tracking by efficiently collecting data over terrain that is difficult to access. This paper presents an unmanned aerial vehicle radio telemetry (UAV-RT) system that integrates VHF radio telemetry equipment with an unmanned aerial system. The system includes a modified hexacopter, an onboard computer, an SDR receiver, a directional antenna, and a ground control station (GCS) laptop. Preliminary experiments are conducted to demonstrate the capabilities of this system and localization accuracy of the system is quantified. Principal components analysis (PCA) and radiation pattern matching (RPM) are used for bearing estimation. Impact of flight altitude and polarization of the tag on system range are investigated. It is found that raising the antenna from the ground level to 122 m more than triples the reception distance of VHF signals.
KW - Localization
KW - Radio Direction Finding
KW - Software-Defined Radio (SDR)
KW - Unmanned Aerial System (UAS)
KW - Wildlife Radio Tracking
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U2 - 10.1109/VTCFall.2018.8690711
DO - 10.1109/VTCFall.2018.8690711
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85064946557
T3 - IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
BT - 2018 IEEE 88th Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC-Fall 2018 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 27 August 2018 through 30 August 2018
ER -