Aircraft location and pitch attitude estimation from communication signals

Author

Wijaya, G. ; Stephen, C.L.L. ; Hoole, P.R.P. ; Sivaprakasapillai, P. ; Tan, Y.K.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore

Volume

4

fYear

1998

fDate

21-26 June 1998

Firstpage

2302

Abstract

This paper reports a method to determine the aircraft location, as well as its pitch attitude using the aircraft-to-control tower communication system. It is shown that two receivers observing the transmitted signals may be used to locate the aircraft. Using two transmitters placed at the nose and tail of the aircraft it is shown that the pitch attitude may be estimated. Furthermore, the location of the aircraft is important to determine the proper pitch attitude and velocity.

Keywords

aircraft antennas; aircraft communication; aircraft navigation; parameter estimation; radio direction-finding; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; CW signal; FM signal; aircraft location; aircraft-to-control tower communication system; antennas; chirp signal; communication signals; nose; pitch attitude estimation; receivers; tail; transmitted signals; transmitters; velocity; Aircraft; Artificial intelligence; Delay; Equations; Frequency; Light scattering; Liquid crystal on silicon; Maximum likelihood estimation; Reflection; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 1998. IEEE

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4478-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.1998.701773

Filename

701773