Demonstrations of combined small-UAV with satellite system for large-scale disaster

Autor: Ryu Miura, Toshinori Kagawa, Fumie Ono, Shan Lin, Byeong-pyo Jeong
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: 33rd AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference and Exhibition.
DOI: 10.2514/6.2015-4329
Popis: This paper describes overviews on two demonstration experiments of combinedxed- wing unmanned aircraft (UA) with satellite telecommunicatio systems for a large-scale disaster. Therst demonstration experiment is for video image delivery of disaster area even immediately after the occurrence of damage. To understand the situation in disaster area, the camera mounted on a small-UA is used in this demonstration experiment. The small-UA can photograph the moving picture during the circling, and the pictures are deliv- ered to non-isolated areas via ground station (GS) and satellite telecommunicatio system in an almost real time. The second demonstration is for providing temporal communication lines rapidly deployable to the isolated areas of disaster area until the recovery of ground infrastructures. To achieve temporal communication lines, small UA equipped with on- board transceiver (or repeater) is used to communicate with the GSs. The small UA-based wireless bridge system and satellite communication systems are serially concatenated to extend the network. This paper presents the successful results of these demonstrations and the effects of this combined system for large-scale disasters.
Databáze: OpenAIRE