Development of an Emergency Radio Beacon for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Emergency locator transmitters (ELTs) used to locate manned aircrafts are not well suited to find and recover small crashed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). ELTs utilize an international satellite system for search and rescue (Cospas-Sarsat System), which should leverage its expensive resources to s...

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Main Authors:	Juana M. Martinez-Heredia, Zulema Garcia, Jose Luis Mora-Jimenez, Sergio Esteban, Francisco Gavilan
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IEEE 2018-01-01
Series:	IEEE Access
Subjects:	Aerospace electronics emergency beacon localization system low cost radio beacon sensor systems
Online Access:	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8337744/

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spelling	doaj-55244f4b4152406198d0c0d00c344bcb2021-03-29T20:54:56ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362018-01-016215702158110.1109/ACCESS.2018.28269188337744Development of an Emergency Radio Beacon for Small Unmanned Aerial VehiclesJuana M. Martinez-Heredia0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0459-6839Zulema Garcia1Jose Luis Mora-Jimenez2Sergio Esteban3Francisco Gavilan4Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Seville, Seville, SpainDepartment of Mission System Architecture and Integration, Airbus D&S, Getafe, SpainDepartment of Electronic Engineering, University of Seville, Seville, SpainDepartment of Aerospace Engineering, University of Seville, Seville, SpainDepartment of Aerospace Engineering, University of Seville, Seville, SpainEmergency locator transmitters (ELTs) used to locate manned aircrafts are not well suited to find and recover small crashed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). ELTs utilize an international satellite system for search and rescue (Cospas-Sarsat System), which should leverage its expensive resources to save lives as a priority. Besides, ELTs are too big and heavy to be used within small UAVs. Some of the existing solutions for this problem are based on receivers that detect signal strength, which may be a long and tedious process not suitable for user needs. Others do not have enough range or require radio license and expensive amateur radio receivers. This paper presents an emergency radio beacon specifically designed to locate small UAVs. It is triggered automatically in the event of a crash and allows finding and recovering a crashed UAV in a fast and simple way. It meets not only the required specifications of user-friendliness, size and weight of this kind of application, but also it is a high precision and low cost device. Besides, it has enough range and endurance. The experiments carried out show the operation of the proposed system.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8337744/Aerospace electronicsemergency beaconlocalization systemlow costradio beaconsensor systems
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spellingShingle	Juana M. Martinez-Heredia Zulema Garcia Jose Luis Mora-Jimenez Sergio Esteban Francisco Gavilan Development of an Emergency Radio Beacon for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles IEEE Access Aerospace electronics emergency beacon localization system low cost radio beacon sensor systems
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title	Development of an Emergency Radio Beacon for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
title_short	Development of an Emergency Radio Beacon for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
title_full	Development of an Emergency Radio Beacon for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
title_fullStr	Development of an Emergency Radio Beacon for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
title_full_unstemmed	Development of an Emergency Radio Beacon for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
title_sort	development of an emergency radio beacon for small unmanned aerial vehicles
publisher	IEEE
series	IEEE Access
issn	2169-3536
publishDate	2018-01-01
description	Emergency locator transmitters (ELTs) used to locate manned aircrafts are not well suited to find and recover small crashed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). ELTs utilize an international satellite system for search and rescue (Cospas-Sarsat System), which should leverage its expensive resources to save lives as a priority. Besides, ELTs are too big and heavy to be used within small UAVs. Some of the existing solutions for this problem are based on receivers that detect signal strength, which may be a long and tedious process not suitable for user needs. Others do not have enough range or require radio license and expensive amateur radio receivers. This paper presents an emergency radio beacon specifically designed to locate small UAVs. It is triggered automatically in the event of a crash and allows finding and recovering a crashed UAV in a fast and simple way. It meets not only the required specifications of user-friendliness, size and weight of this kind of application, but also it is a high precision and low cost device. Besides, it has enough range and endurance. The experiments carried out show the operation of the proposed system.
topic	Aerospace electronics emergency beacon localization system low cost radio beacon sensor systems
url	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8337744/
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Development of an Emergency Radio Beacon for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

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