{"id":1115,"date":"2025-03-25T12:26:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/doe-4th-projects\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=1115"},"modified":"2026-07-08T09:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:13:14","slug":"jim-wight","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/doe-4th-projects\/people\/jim-wight\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Wight"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"project-area-radar-technologies\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Project Area: <strong>Radar Technologies<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"project-title-drone-based-radar-for-monitoring-and-directing-delivery-drones\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Project Title: Drone Based Radar for Monitoring and Directing Delivery Drones<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1127\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/doe-4th-projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/268\/radar-62991_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/doe-4th-projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/268\/radar-62991_960_720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/doe-4th-projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/268\/radar-62991_960_720-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/doe-4th-projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/268\/radar-62991_960_720-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/doe-4th-projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/268\/radar-62991_960_720-160x106.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/doe-4th-projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/268\/radar-62991_960_720-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/doe-4th-projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/268\/radar-62991_960_720-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/doe-4th-projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/268\/radar-62991_960_720-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/doe-4th-projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/268\/radar-62991_960_720-360x239.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>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\n\n\n<p>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\n\n\n<p>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\n\n\n<p>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\n\n\n<p>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\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list bulleted\">\n<li>Antennas and Corporate Feed<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mircowave Transmitteer and Receiver Circuits<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Phase Locked Carrier and Code Synthesizers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DSP for Target detection and Tracking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Desired Technical Skills<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list bulleted\">\n<li>Monopulse Antenna design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Microwave Low Nise and Power Amplifier design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Phase Locked Oscillator design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kalman Filter design<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n    \n    <dl class=\"cu-description cu-component-updated\">\n        \n    <div class=\"grid pt-4 pb-3 border-b accordion border-cu-black-100 md:pt-6 md:pb-5 first:border-t\">\n        <dt class=\"font-semibold not-prose\">\n            <button class=\"flex items-center justify-between w-full text-left accordion__button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-capstone-project-2025-2026\">\n                <span class=\"flex-1 ml-auto text-left break-words whitespace-normal cu-icon\">\n                    Capstone Project 2025-2026\n                <\/span>\n                <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-slot=\"icon\" class=\"w-5 h-5 ml-auto transition-transform rotate-0 accordion__icon text-cu-black-500\">\n                    <path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M8.25 4.5l7.5 7.5-7.5 7.5\"><\/path>\n                <\/svg>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/dt>\n        <dd class=\"p-0 mt-0 cu-prose cu-prose-first-last accordion__content md:p-0 md:mt-0\" hidden=\"\" id=\"accordion-capstone-project-2025-2026\">\n            \n\n<h4>Project Title (2025-2026): Drone Based Short Range Surveillance Radar for Air Traffic Control of multiple Delivery Drones<\/h4>\n<h4>Project Subtitles:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n \t<li>Antennas and Corporate Feed (Monopulse Antenna, Passive Microwave Feed, Circulator Duplexer)<\/li>\n \t<li>Transmitter Circuits (Microwave Power Amplifier, Voltage Controlled Oscillator, Waveform Generator)<\/li>\n \t<li>Receiver Circuits (Low Noise Amplifier, Down Converter, Phae Locked Loop)<\/li>\n \t<li>Signal Processing (DSP, FPGA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Desired Technical Skills:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n \t<li>Analytical Skills<\/li>\n \t<li>Simulation Skills<\/li>\n \t<li>Component Selection, Procurement and Assembly Skills<\/li>\n \t<li>Test and Measurement Skills<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Project Description<\/h4>\nAs 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 &#8220;traffic cop&#8221; drones to monitor and direct the motion of the delivery drones. If the &#8220;traffic cop&#8221; drone predicts a probable collision it will send a Fly Up &#8211; Fly Down command to the delivery drones\n\nThis project will design, analyze, build and test a Mono-pulse FM-CW radar payload to be mounted on a &#8220;traffic cop&#8221; drone. This radar will measure the range and bearing to all delivery drones within its surveillance area, typically 5 Km radius.\n\nThe project is composed of four sub-projects.\n\nThe first sub-project will design the waveform generator which tunes the Voltage Controlled Oscillator, which feeds the Power Amplifier (PA).\n\nThe second sub-project will design the duplexer which connects to both the transmitter and to the receiver,. the mono-pulse corporate feed, and antennas.\n\nThe third sub-project will design the Low Noise Amplifier (LNA), the Down Converter, and the Phase Locked Loop (PLL) narrow band filter.\n\nThe 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.\n\n\n        <\/dd>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/dl>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1116,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Jim","cu_people_last_name":"Wight","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[33,34],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-1115","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-capstone205","cu_people_type-capstone206"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"Jim.Wight@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/doe\/cu-people\/jim-wight\/","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/doe-4th-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/doe-4th-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/doe-4th-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/doe-4th-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/doe-4th-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/doe-4th-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/1115\/revisions\/1466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/doe-4th-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/doe-4th-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/doe-4th-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/doe-4th-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}