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A Study on UAV DoA Estimation Accuracy Improvement using Monopulse Tracking

모노펄스 추적을 이용한 무인기 DoA 추정정밀도 향상 방안에 관한 연구

  • Received : 2017.11.10
  • Accepted : 2017.12.15
  • Published : 2017.12.31
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Abstract

Various studies such as INS(: Inertial Navigation System) are conducting to estimate the position of UAV, because the GPS information of UAV is at risk like the GPS jamming. The position estimation using DoA and RTT are used to apply many radar systems, and that process can be applied in datalink of UAV. The general monopulse feed in UAV datalink is Multi-horn, because of the wide BW(: Band Width) and frequency range. And it needs wide SNR range of tracking because of the limited transmit power of airborne unit. The estimation error of position increase at low SNR, and the DoA is valid in only 3dB beam width but high SNR causes false of mainlobe detection because of large sidelobe. In this paper, We propose the method to achieve higher accuracy of DoA estimation on low SNR and review some idea that able to detect mainlobe.

비행체의 위치정보는 GPS 교란과 같은 위험성에 노출될 수 있기 때문에 위치를 추정하기 위해 관성항법장치와 같은 여러 연구가 수행되고 있다. DoA(: Direction of Arrival) 및 RTT(: Round Trip Time)을 이용한 위치추정 기법은 레이다시스템에 적용되어 비행체의 위치를 추정하는데 사용되고 있으며 무인기 데이터링크에 적용 가능하다. 무인기 데이터링크는 넓은 대역폭을 사용하기 때문에 다중혼 방식의 합 차패턴 생성 방식을 주로 사용하며 탑재체의 제한된 송신출력으로 낮은 SNR 영역을 포함하여 추적을 수행한다. 일반적으로 낮은 SNR에서 위치 추정오차는 증가하며 높은 SNR에서 부엽을 제한하지 못하면 추정된 DoA의 유효성이 상실된다. 본 논문에서는 부엽을 제한하고 낮은 SNR에서 증가하는 DoA 추정오차를 보정하기 위한 방안을 제시한다.

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