Using a Drone Formation with Sectored Antennas in Search-And-Rescue: Heuristics for Orienting Drones and Moving the Formation

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Using a Drone Formation with Sectored Antennas in Search-And-Rescue: Heuristics for Orienting Drones and Moving the Formation

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Recently there has been interest in using drones/unmanned aerial vehicles in search-and-rescue applications. Here we apply a formation of drones equipped with sectorised antennae to navigate to a transmitter using Direction of Arrival (DoA) estimation to navigate. We present results indicating that the error of the DoA estimate is dependent on the DoA and evaluate a mitigation technique, finding that incrementally changing the drone orientation across the formation reduces the DoA estimation ...

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2022

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Pell S / Willig, Andreas

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https://hdl.handle.net/10092/104050

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direction-of-arrival estimation / search and rescue / UAV / UAV formations / Engineering / Automotive engineering / Automotive mechatronics and autonomous systems / Geomatic engineering / Navigation and position fixing / Information and computing sciences / Applied computing / Spatial data and applications / Distributed computing and systems software / Networking and communications / Control engineering, mechatronics and robotics / Autonomous vehicle systems

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