RF Design for Tactical Ultra-Light Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Radar System

Abstract

The Radar Division of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has developed the radio frequency (RF) section of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) radar system in support of the Navy's Tactical Ultra-Light (TUL) UAV program. This RF section consists of a local oscillator (LO) and timing-circuitry module, transmit and receive modules, and a calibration network. The objective of the UAV Radar project was to develop and demonstrate the feasibility of a target detection concept for the TUL UAV system. This concept includes hardware and digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms for target detection in high clutter and foilage with low false-track rates. The hardware effort described represents a significant contribution to the Navy's ability to field a TUL UAV system with an effective radar capability.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 29, 2007
Accession Number
ADA467595

Entities

People

  • Eric L. Mokole
  • Jimmy O. Alatishe
  • Lawrence M. Leibowitz
  • Sukomal Talapatra

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Bandpass Filters
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  • Frequency Bands
  • Frequency Synthesizers
  • Mobile Phones
  • Oscillators
  • Radar
  • Radio Frequency
  • Signal Processing
  • Surface Acoustic Waves
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Waveform Generators

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Optical Fiber Sensing and Electromagnetic Propagation.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy