Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2019, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (5): 958-963.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-506X.2019.05.04

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Intra-group short-range location of aircraft based on polarization steering factor

CHEN Guangdong, HUANG Yuze, WANG Yuan   

  1. Research Institute of Unmanned Aircraft, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
  • Online:2019-04-30 Published:2019-04-26

Abstract:

The research of intra-group short-range positioning can improve the survivability of the aircraft group. Some factors, such as the position error of the electromagnetic vector sensor on the aircrafts, make it difficult to measure position of aircraft. Signal steering vector of polarizing array borne on a group of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is set up according to sense attitude and position. According to the three-dimensional data structure relationship of signal time, polarization and spatial phase delay, polarizing direction of arrival (DOA) factor algorithm is adopted to retain the attitude and position information of sensors installed in the fuselage, calculate the electromagnetic wave spatial spectrum, and aggregate the target information. The short-range multi-target location of aircraft group is realized. It solves the problem of polarization parameters of short-range signal vary with receiving position, cross polarization, the inaccuracy of the UAV position measurement and gain/phase drift. Simulation results show that the algorithm is effective.

Key words: electromagnetic vector sensor (EVS), state of polarization, direction of arrival (DOA), position errors

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