Joint ranging and phase offset estimation of multiple aviation vehicles using secondary radar

Mostafa Mohammadkarimi, Geert Leus, Raj Thilak Rajan

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new method for joint ranging and Phase Offset (PO) estimation of multiple transponder-equipped aviation vehicles (TEAVs), including Manned Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The proposed method employs the overlapping uncoordinated Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) packets broadcasted by the TEAVs for joint range and PO estimation prior to ADS-B packet decoding; thus, it can improve air safety when packet decoding is infeasible due to packet collision. Moreover, it enables coherent detection of ADS-B packets, which can result in more reliable multiple target tracking in aviation systems using cooperative sensors for sense and avoid. By minimizing the Kullback-Leibler Divergence (KLD), we show that the received complex baseband signal, coming from K uncoordinated TEAVs, which is corrupted by Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) at a single antenna receiver can be approximated by an independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) Gaussian Mixture (GM) with 2K mixture components in the two-dimensional plane. The proposed estimator employs the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm to estimate the modes of the 2D Gaussian mixture followed by a reordering estimation technique to jointly estimate range and PO. Simulation results show that the proposed joint estimator outperforms excising methods, such as the time segmentation method and the blind adaptive beamforming.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2024 - Proceedings
PublisherIEEE
Pages9131-9135
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9798350344851
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Event49th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2024 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 14 Apr 202419 Apr 2024

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference49th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2024
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period14/04/2419/04/24

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Keywords

  • ADS-B
  • cooperative navigation
  • expectation-maximization
  • phase offset
  • Ranging
  • UAV

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