Caracterização de canal utilizando Veículo Aéreo Não Tripulado

Abstract

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to provide services such as internet, goods delivery and air taxi has become a reality in recent years. The use of these aircraft requires secure communication between the control station and the UAV, a task made easier by knowing the characteristics of the communication channel. This work is intended to present a measurement setup using an unmanned aircraft, and to use the measured data for RF channel characterization. The collected data were analyzed in order to characterize the large scale fading (path loss and shadowing) and the small scale fading (multipath and doppler) in caatinga scenarios, over a lake and a region mixed with the two previous environments. The following work presents the data collected in the measurement campaigns, the processing performed by the developed scripts and the results of the RF Channel characterization.