Development of ka-band satellite tracking antenna for unmanned aircraft system

Author

Tsuji, Hiroyuki ; Orikasa, Teruaki ; Miura, Amane ; Toyoshima, Morio ; Miura, Ryu

Author_Institution

Wireless Network Res. Inst., Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

7-10 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

38

Lastpage

42

Abstract

Toward increased use of unmanned aircrafts (UA), researches and standardizations of the control communication system for UA using satellites in ITU-R and the like have been discussed recently. The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has been developing an on-board tracking antenna system for UA which realizes a communication link between UA and remote pilot through satellite. The tracking on-board antenna is designed for UA and has several features such as low-profile and broadband. In this paper, we explain the results to date and background of this development.

Keywords

aircraft antennas; aircraft communication; satellite communication; satellite tracking; telecommunication control; ITU-R satellites; Ka-band satellite tracking antenna; control communication system; onboard tracking antenna system; remote pilot; unmanned aircraft system; Antenna measurements; Frequency selective surfaces; Satellite antennas; Satellites; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Wireless communication; CNPC; on-board antenna component; satellite; unmanned aircraft;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), 2014 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WPMC.2014.7014787

Filename

7014787