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Main Authors: Sun, Yifei, Yu, Chao, Luo, Yan, Han, Tony Xiao, Tan, Haisheng, Wang, Rui, Lau, Francis C. M.
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.20788
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author Sun, Yifei
Yu, Chao
Luo, Yan
Han, Tony Xiao
Tan, Haisheng
Wang, Rui
Lau, Francis C. M.
author_facet Sun, Yifei
Yu, Chao
Luo, Yan
Han, Tony Xiao
Tan, Haisheng
Wang, Rui
Lau, Francis C. M.
contents Given the prospects of the low-altitude economy (LAE) and the popularity of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), there are increasing demands on monitoring flying objects at low altitude in wide urban areas. In this work, the widely deployed long-term evolution (LTE) base station (BS) is exploited to illuminate UAVs in bistatic trajectory tracking. Specifically, a passive sensing receiver with two digital antenna arrays is proposed and developed to capture both the line-of-sight (LoS) signal and the scattered signal off a target UAV. From their cross ambiguity function, the bistatic range, Doppler shift and angle-of-arrival (AoA) of the target UAV can be detected in a sequence of time slots. In order to address missed detections and false alarms of passive sensing, a multi-target tracking framework is adopted to track the trajectory of the target UAV. It is demonstrated by experiments that the proposed UAV tracking system can achieve a meter-level accuracy.
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spellingShingle An Experimental Study of Passive UAV Tracking with Digital Arrays and Cellular Downlink Signals
Sun, Yifei
Yu, Chao
Luo, Yan
Han, Tony Xiao
Tan, Haisheng
Wang, Rui
Lau, Francis C. M.
Signal Processing
Systems and Control
Given the prospects of the low-altitude economy (LAE) and the popularity of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), there are increasing demands on monitoring flying objects at low altitude in wide urban areas. In this work, the widely deployed long-term evolution (LTE) base station (BS) is exploited to illuminate UAVs in bistatic trajectory tracking. Specifically, a passive sensing receiver with two digital antenna arrays is proposed and developed to capture both the line-of-sight (LoS) signal and the scattered signal off a target UAV. From their cross ambiguity function, the bistatic range, Doppler shift and angle-of-arrival (AoA) of the target UAV can be detected in a sequence of time slots. In order to address missed detections and false alarms of passive sensing, a multi-target tracking framework is adopted to track the trajectory of the target UAV. It is demonstrated by experiments that the proposed UAV tracking system can achieve a meter-level accuracy.
title An Experimental Study of Passive UAV Tracking with Digital Arrays and Cellular Downlink Signals
topic Signal Processing
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.20788