TY - JOUR
T1 - Location Awareness System for Drones Flying beyond Visual Line of Sight Exploiting the 400 MHz Frequency Band
AU - Kato, Nei
AU - Kamisawa, Yoshihiro
AU - Kitashima, Akifumi
AU - Kawamoto, Yuichi
AU - Aneha, Akira
AU - Yaguchi, Yuichi
AU - Miura, Ryu
AU - Nakamura, Hideki
AU - Kobayashi, Michihiro
AU - Henmi, Toshihiko
AU - Akimoto, Osamu
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgment This work was conducted by the technical investigative commission on wireless communication systems for flying location awareness of small drones, under the responsibility of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan. In addition, part of this work was funded by the ImPACT Program of the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (Cabinet Office, Government of Japan). We would like to thank Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. for providing support to the committee work and during the experiments.
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PY - 2019/12
Y1 - 2019/12
N2 - Drones are being increasingly used to create new services and support the expansion of existing applications based on communication networks due to their flexibility and potential coverage. However, drone control and safety guarantees are difficult to attain, especially when drones fly beyond visual line of sight. To address this problem, we consider the real-time location awareness of drones flying beyond visual line of sight. In this article, we first introduce trends concerning location awareness of drones and our developed system exploiting the 400 MHz frequency band. Then, experimental results validate the performance of the developed system in terms of radio propagation and delay performance, and we further confirm the effectiveness of the system in practical settings.
AB - Drones are being increasingly used to create new services and support the expansion of existing applications based on communication networks due to their flexibility and potential coverage. However, drone control and safety guarantees are difficult to attain, especially when drones fly beyond visual line of sight. To address this problem, we consider the real-time location awareness of drones flying beyond visual line of sight. In this article, we first introduce trends concerning location awareness of drones and our developed system exploiting the 400 MHz frequency band. Then, experimental results validate the performance of the developed system in terms of radio propagation and delay performance, and we further confirm the effectiveness of the system in practical settings.
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U2 - 10.1109/MWC.2019.1800570
DO - 10.1109/MWC.2019.1800570
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85073733976
VL - 26
SP - 149
EP - 155
JO - IEEE Wireless Communications
JF - IEEE Wireless Communications
SN - 1536-1284
IS - 6
M1 - 8869711
ER -