Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Platform Stabilization for Remote Radar Life Sensing
Keywords:
Motion compensation, radar, remote sensing, UAVAbstract
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) platforms are increasingly ubiquitous and an ideal platform for rapid deployment to conduct remote sensing. However, for radar sensors that measure the phase of the signal of interest, the platform must be stabilized to avoid signal distortion. Measurement of respiratory motion with a continuous wave Doppler radar sensor is vulnerable to platform motion and requires a stable platform and postdetection motion compensation signal processing. We have investigated feedback stabilization techniques via simulation and empirical measurements using a bench top test fixture to remove the motion noise, where we observed a 86% reduction in motion, resulting in a SNR improvement of 29 dB after motion compensation.
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