A radio beacon system configured to assist autonomous flight of one or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), wherein the radio beacon system comprises:—a drone device (200), configured to be installed on an UAV and including a radio transceiver, and—a radio beacon device (100), configured to be installed on ground and including N antenna arrays (110, 120) with N≥2, one or more radio transceivers configured to communicate with the radio transceiver of the drone device (200), and at least one processing unit (130), wherein each antenna array (110, 120) has M antenna elements (115, 125) with M≥2 associated to respective beamforming electronic weights w(n, m), with n ranging from 1 to N and m ranging from 1 to M, wherein said at least one processing unit (130) is configured to perform an adaptive beamforming method for assisting autonomous flight of the UAV.


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    Titel :

    RADIO BEACON SYSTEM


    Beteiligte:
    PIAZZA DIEGO (Autor:in) / MENA GIUSEPPE (Autor:in) / REGGIANI LUCA (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2020-06-25


    Medientyp :

    Patent


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Klassifikation :

    IPC:    G01S RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING , Funkpeilung / B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge / B64D Ausrüstung für Flugzeuge , EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT / H01Q Antennen , ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS



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