Title :
Electronic Leashing of an Unmanned Aircraft to a Radio Source
Author :
Dixon, Cory ; Frew, Eric
Author_Institution :
PhD candidate, Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA. (e-mail: cory.dixon@colorado.edu).
Abstract :
This paper presents a solution to the radio leashing problem in which an autonomous aircraft is electronically tethered to a radio node in order to maintain a communication link between them. The solution presented here solves the leashing problem using only local measurements of the communication link and assumes no knowledge of the radio node location or on the RF propagation environment. In this work, the signal-to-noise ratio for each individual link is the only input into a high-level steering control algorithm.
Keywords :
Aerospace electronics; Aircraft; Communication system control; Ice; Ocean temperature; Sea measurements; Signal to noise ratio; Temperature sensors; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 2005 and 2005 European Control Conference. CDC-ECC '05. 44th IEEE Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9567-0
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.2005.1582714