Remote control software development for a small airborne electronic support payload

Author

Poliakov, E. ; Wu, C. ; Lee, J.P.Y. ; Antar, Y.M.M.

Author_Institution

R. Mil. Coll. of Canada, Kingston, ON, Canada

fYear

2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) electronic support payload (ESP) has been developed for the purpose of detecting and analyzing radar signals. The airborne payload control system (PCS) must be controlled from a ground control station (GCS) remotely through a wireless link. For the purpose, a control program, called Radar Signal Acquisition System (RSAS), has been designed, implemented and integrated with ESP. This paper introduces the ESP system, provides an overview of the general acquisition process, gives details on the RSAS and wireless link implementation using the Matlab scripting language, and finally presents some test results.

Keywords

aerospace robotics; control engineering computing; data acquisition; mobile robots; radar signal processing; remotely operated vehicles; software engineering; Matlab scripting language; airborne electronic support payload; airborne payload control system; ground control station; radar signal acquisition system; remote control software development; unmanned aerial vehicle; wireless link; Antennas; Computers; Payloads; Protocols; Servers; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Wireless communication; Electronic Support Payload; Ground Control Station; Remote Sensing; Unmanned Aerial Vehicle; Wireless Data Link;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference (ANTEM-AMEREM), 2010 14th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5049-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5050-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552472

Filename

5552472