Control of an indoor autonomous mobile communications relay via antenna diversity

Brian Griffin; Rafael Fierro; Ivana Palunko

doi:10.1117/12.849986

7 May 2010 Control of an indoor autonomous mobile communications relay via antenna diversity

Brian Griffin, Rafael Fierro, Ivana Palunko

Proceedings Volume 7692, Unmanned Systems Technology XII; 76920V (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.849986
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2010, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Presented here is a motion planning scheme for enabling a quadrotor to serve as an autonomous communications relay in indoor/GPS-denied environments. Using antenna selection diversity, the quadrotor is able to optimize its location in the communication chain so as to maximize the link throughput. Measurements of the communications field drive a gradient descent algorithm that moves the quadrotor to an optimal location while avoiding obstacles, all without the use of positioning data.

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Brian Griffin, Rafael Fierro, and Ivana Palunko "Control of an indoor autonomous mobile communications relay via antenna diversity", Proc. SPIE 7692, Unmanned Systems Technology XII, 76920V (7 May 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.849986

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