Radio Location Estimation Experiment using Array Antennas for High Altitude Platforms

Author

Tsuji, Hiroyuki ; Gray, Derek ; Suzuki, Mikio ; Miura, Ryu

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Yokosuka

fYear

2007

fDate

3-7 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

A mobile terminal localization experiment using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) carrying an angle-of-arrival array antenna was conducted in 2006. The UAV was a prototype stage in the development of a high-altitude long endurance platform (HALE). This UAV was used for the mobile terminal localization experiment because detecting the positions of mobile terminals is considered to be one of the fundamental applications for future High Altitude Platform (HAP) systems. The localization experiment is described in this paper, and the post-processing results obtained to date are given and discussed.

Keywords

aircraft antennas; antenna arrays; array signal processing; direction-of-arrival estimation; high altitude stratospheric platforms; remotely operated vehicles; UAV; angle-of-arrival array antenna; high altitude platforms; high-altitude long endurance platform; mobile terminal localization experiment; radio location estimation; unmanned aerial vehicle; Antenna arrays; Communications technology; Global Positioning System; Mobile antennas; Prototypes; Radio transmitters; Satellite broadcasting; Transmitting antennas; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2007. PIMRC 2007. IEEE 18th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1144-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1144-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2007.4394608

Filename

4394608