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Project Area: Radar Technologies<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Project Title: Drone Based Radar for Monitoring and Directing Delivery Drones<\/h4>\n

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Description<\/strong>: With the future of drone delivery services, some control of drone traffic will be required in order to prevent mid-air collisions. This problem will not be handled by Air Traffic Control. Instead it will be handled in a manner equivalent to street intersection traffic lights in the sky.<\/p>\n

These \u201ctraffic lights\u201d could be low power radar payloads on traffic controlling drones. When a potential drone collision is anticipated, the traffic controlling drone will transmit \u201cfly up \u2013 fly down\u201d instructions to the two delivery drones.<\/p>\n

This project focuses on the key technologies needed to assemble a drone mountable short range radar system to provide the Delivery Drone Management. To achieve high range resolution and low prime power, the radar will be a Direct Sequenc Spread Spectrum radar, not a conventional Pulsed radar. And to achieve high Azimuth resolution, a rotating Mono-pulse antenna consisting of two \u201csquinted\u201d beams will be used.<\/p>\n

The project focuses on the design of four major assemblies: the antennas and corporate feed, the transmitter and receiver microwave circuits, the phase locked carrier and spread spectrum \u201cchip\u201d clock generator, and the DSP for target detection and tracking.<\/p>\n

This project will build upon the achievements of the Cap Stone project from 2025 \/26, with the following tentative titles of the various sub-projects:<\/p>\n