Paper Info
Title
Low-Cost Mini Radar: Design Prototyping and Tests.
Abstract
Radar systems are largely employed for surveillance of wide and remote areas; the recent advent of drones gives the opportunity to exploit radar sensors on board of unmanned aerial platforms. Nevertheless, whereas drone radars are currently available for military applications, their employment in the civilian domain is still limited. The present research focuses on design, prototyping, and testing of an agile, low-cost, mini radar system, to be carried on board of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPAs) or tethered aerostats. In particular, the paper faces the challenge to integrate the in-house developed radar sensor with a low-cost navigation board, which is used to estimate attitude and positioning data. In fact, a suitable synchronization between radar and navigation data is essential to properly reconstruct the radar picture whenever the platform is moving or the radar is scanning different azimuthal sectors. Preliminary results, relative to tests conducted in preoperational conditions, are provided and exploited to assert the suitable consistency of the obtained radar pictures. From the results, there is a high consistency between the radar images and the picture of the current environment emerges; finally, the comparison of radar images obtained in different scans shows the stability of the platform.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1155/2017/8029364
JOURNAL OF SENSORS
Field
DocType
Volume
Radar engineering details,Radar,Computer vision,Radar imaging,Man-portable radar,Radar lock-on,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Fire-control radar,3D radar,Radar configurations and types
Journal
2017
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1687-725X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
2
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
dario tarchi1287.71
Michele Vespe216614.03
Ciro Gioia3176.63
Francesco Sermi400.68
Vladimir Kyovtorov521.39
Giorgio Guglieri6637.93