Using Airborne Vehicle-Based Antenna Arrays to Improve Communications with UAV Clusters

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 4158-4162

  Breheny, Sean H ^a   D'Andrea, Raffaello ^a   Miller, Jeremy C ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; DATA TRANSFER; ERROR ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TRACKING (POSITION);

BASE STATIONS; PHASE COMPENSATION; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 1542289028     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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