Deign and Development of RADAR for Quadcopter

Civil aviation regulatory authorities demand all the aspects of safety of unmanned air vehicles to accommodate them in national airspace along with manned aircrafts. For BLOS UAVs to be integrated into National Air Space one of the primary requirements is that it can ?Sense and Avoid? surroundi

2025-06-28 16:31:06 - Adil Khan

Project Title

Deign and Development of RADAR for Quadcopter

Project Area of Specialization Artificial IntelligenceProject Summary

Civil aviation regulatory authorities demand all the aspects of safety of unmanned air vehicles to accommodate them in national airspace along with manned aircrafts. For BLOS UAVs to be integrated into National Air Space one of the primary requirements is that it can “Sense and Avoid” surrounding Air Traffic, be it manned or unmanned. For this UAV should be completely autonomous and by removing the pilot from the system necessitates replacement of his functionality with regard to detecting and avoiding threats. In order to increase the existing airspace for UAV and the expansion of UAV technology in commercial market the active area of current research and approaches are sense and avoid functionality of UAV

For a UAV to avoid collision the fundamental tasks are “sense and avoid”. The project will be mainly focusing on the sensing (detection)of the target by the UAV. Project aims to simulate a complete airborne radar including propagation channel and RF front end and to develop a functional prototype radar for UAV which will form the SENSE (detection) part of sense and avoid capability essential for integration of UAVs in National Air Space and execute autonomous collision avoidance. The goal will be achieved by designing and development of airborne RADAR that will be installed on quad copter. The functional prototype of the RADAR will be able to determine the distance, quadrant and the speed of the target of enhanced RCS within the range of 500 meters to 1km.

The project is divided into four major parts. The simulated complete end to end radar model including radar propagation channel and RF front end, Radar Signal Processor based on embedded system, prototype of airborne radar, carry out its integration on UAV and conduct flight testing. Signal processing will be performed “off-line”.

Project Objectives Project Implementation Method

Literature review

Simulation and radar signal processing

Hardware and integration of radar with UAV

Benefits of the Project Technical Details of Final Deliverable Final Deliverable of the Project HW/SW integrated systemCore Industry EducationOther IndustriesCore Technology Artificial Intelligence(AI)Other TechnologiesSustainable Development Goals Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureRequired Resources
Item Name Type No. of Units Per Unit Cost (in Rs) Total (in Rs)
Total in (Rs) 80000
quadcopter Equipment11000010000
RF hardware Equipment15000050000
embedded hardware Equipment11000010000
misc. electronic components Miscellaneous 11000010000

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