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Development of active directional antennae for use in small UAVs

Development of active directional antennae for use in small UAVs
Development of active directional antennae for use in small UAVs
Five different light-weight, medium and high gain directional antennas have been developed, which can be operated together with a gimbals system on the UAV or an antenna tracker system on the ground or with both to extend the range of communication and improve the quality of video signals. The antennas are based on PCB to reduce the mass. There are two types of antennas developed for different transmission frequency: Patch Antenna and Yagi-Uda Antenna. The gimbals system are under developing, which will be based on Arduino Micro Development Board, also quite light, and the board will drive a pan and tilt structure constructed with two small but powerful servos to ensure the antenna to point at the ground station.
Guo, Yangzi
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Prior, Stephen D.
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Guo, Yangzi
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Prior, Stephen D.
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Guo, Yangzi and Prior, Stephen D. (2013) Development of active directional antennae for use in small UAVs. 2013 International Conference on Innovation, Communication, and Engineering, Qingdao, China. 25 Oct - 02 Nov 2013.

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Abstract

Five different light-weight, medium and high gain directional antennas have been developed, which can be operated together with a gimbals system on the UAV or an antenna tracker system on the ground or with both to extend the range of communication and improve the quality of video signals. The antennas are based on PCB to reduce the mass. There are two types of antennas developed for different transmission frequency: Patch Antenna and Yagi-Uda Antenna. The gimbals system are under developing, which will be based on Arduino Micro Development Board, also quite light, and the board will drive a pan and tilt structure constructed with two small but powerful servos to ensure the antenna to point at the ground station.

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Published date: 26 October 2013
Venue - Dates: 2013 International Conference on Innovation, Communication, and Engineering, Qingdao, China, 2013-10-25 - 2013-11-02
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Organisations: Computational Engineering & Design Group

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Local EPrints ID: 359687
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/359687
PURE UUID: 6659fa98-6628-40a2-a084-64e697193fbc
ORCID for Stephen D. Prior: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4993-4942

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Date deposited: 08 Nov 2013 13:26
Last modified: 11 Dec 2021 04:40

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Author: Yangzi Guo

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