Jim Wight
Microwave Circuits, Antennas, Phase Lock Circuits, FPGA
| Email: | Jim.Wight@carleton.ca |
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Project Title
Drone Based Short Range Surveillance Radar for Air Traffic Control of multiple Delivery Drones
Project Subtitles:
- Antennas and Corporate Feed (Monopulse Antenna, Passive Microwave Feed, Circulator Duplexer)
- Transmitter Circuits (Microwave Power Amplifier, Voltage Controlled Oscillator, Waveform Generator)
- Receiver Circuits (Low Noise Amplifier, Down Converter, Phae Locked Loop)
- Signal Processing (DSP, FPGA)
Desired Technical Skills:
- Analitical Skills
- Simulation Skills
- Component Selection, Procurement and Assembly Skills
- Test and Measurement Skills
Project Description
As package delivery by autonomous Drones becomes more prevalent, the possibility of mid-air collision between drones increases. Traditional Air Traffic Control will not monitor these low altitude vehicles. As a result a need arises for “traffic cop” drones to monitor and direct the motion of the delivery drones. If the “traffic cop” drone predicts a probable collision it will send a Fly Up – Fly Down command to the delivery drones
This project will design, analyze, build and test a Mono-pulse FM-CW radar payload to be mounted on a “traffic cop” drone. This radar will measure the range and bearing to all delivery drones within its surveillance area, typically 5 Km radius.
The project is composed of four sub-projects.
The first sub-project will design the waveform generator which tunes the Voltage Controlled Oscillator, which feeds the Power Amplifier (PA).
The second sub-project will design the duplexer which connects to both the transmitter and to the receiver,. the mono-pulse corporate feed, and antennas.
The third sub-project will design the Low Noise Amplifier (LNA), the Down Converter, and the Phase Locked Loop (PLL) narrow band filter.
The fourth sub-project will Digitize the output from the PLL, compute the direction of arrival, and compute the range of all delivery drones within the surveillance area.