Apparatus and Method for Measuring and Drawing Wide-Area Spatial Channel Map Through Multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Cooperation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2024271961-A1
Application number	US-202318227988-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 31, 2023
Priority date	Feb 9, 2023
Publication date	Aug 15, 2024
Grant date	—

Abstract

According to a surveying and mapping instrument and method for a wide-area spatial channel map through multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) cooperation, a measurement signal emission unit generates and emits a measurement signal, a measurement signal multi-UAV cooperative receiving unit receives the measurement signal transmitted through a wireless channel, extracts an effective multipath component from the measurement signal, and frames the effective multipath component and corresponding time and location information for storage, and transmits stored channel data to a channel data fusion processing unit offline, and the channel data fusion processing unit fuses the channel data in terms of space, time, and frequency dimensions, and completes missing channel data to construct a complete wide-area spatial channel map.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A surveying and mapping instrument for a wide-area spatial channel map through a multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) cooperation, comprising: a measurement signal emission unit, a measurement signal multi-UAV cooperative receiving unit, and a channel data fusion processing unit, wherein
the measurement signal emission unit generates and emits a measurement signal, the measurement signal multi-UAV cooperative receiving unit receives the measurement signal transmitted through a wireless channel, extracts an effective multipath component from the measurement signal, frames the effective multipath component and corresponding time and location information for storage, and transmits stored channel data to the channel data fusion processing unit offline, and the channel data fusion processing unit fuses the channel data in terms of space, time, and frequency dimensions, and completes missing channel data to construct a complete wide-area spatial channel map; wherein the measurement signal multi-UAV cooperative receiving unit comprises M measurement signal aerial receiving nodes, and each of the measurement signal aerial receiving nodes comprises a low noise amplifier module, a channel response extraction module, a system response elimination module, a channel response compensation module, a multipath component extraction module, a Global Position System (GPS) module 2, a channel parameter framing module, and an UAV data storage module, wherein the low noise amplifier module performs a low noise amplification on the measurement signal received by a receiving antenna and transmits the amplified measurement signal to the channel response extraction module, the channel response extraction module extracts an original channel impulse response, the system response elimination module obtains a system response of a measurement system through a back-to-back measurement and eliminates the system response, the channel response compensation module compensates for a power loss of a channel impulse response due to a sampling time offset between receiving and emission nodes, the multipath component extraction module extracts an effective multipath component from the channel impulse response by adopting an adaptive noise threshold, the GPS module 2 uses a pulse per second signal to trigger a reception of the measurement signal, and obtains time and location information of the measurement signal aerial receiving nodes, the channel parameter framing module frames the effective multipath component and its corresponding time and location information, and framed channel data is stored in the UAV data storage module.

2 . The surveying and mapping instrument for the wide-area spatial channel map through the multi-UAV cooperation according to claim 1 , wherein the measurement signal emission unit comprises a measurement parameter configuration module, a measurement signal generation module, a power amplifier module, and a GPS module 1, wherein
the measurement parameter configuration module is configured to configure channel measurement parameters, the measurement signal generation module generates the measurement signal based on the configured channel measurement parameters, the power amplifier module performs a power amplification on the generated measurement signal, such that the amplified measurement signal is emitted by a emission antenna, and the GPS module 1 uses a pulse per second signal to trigger an emission of the measurement signal.

3 . The surveying and mapping instrument for the wide-area spatial channel map through the multi-UAV cooperation according to claim 1 , wherein the channel data fusion processing unit comprises a channel data storage module, a channel data fusion module, a channel data completion module, and a channel map generation module, wherein
in a ground server, the channel data storage module performs offline transmission and storage on the channel data stored by the UAV data storage module, the channel data fusion module fuses the collected channel data in terms of the space, time, and frequency dimensions, the channel data completion module completes the missing channel data in wide-area space to obtain complete channel data, and the channel map generation module constructs the wide-area spatial channel map based on the complete channel data.

4 . A surveying and mapping method for a wide-area spatial channel map through a multi-UAV cooperation, comprising following steps:
step 1: configuring channel measurement parameters, and generating a measurement signal based on the configured measurement parameters, performing a power amplification on the measurement signal, and then radiating the amplified measurement signal by using an emission antenna of a measurement signal emission unit; step 2: receiving, by a receiving antenna of each measurement signal aerial receiving node, the measurement signal transmitted through a wireless channel, extracting an original channel impulse response from the measurement signal after performing a low noise amplification on the measurement signal, obtaining a system response of a measurement system through a back-to-back measurement and eliminating the system response, compensating for a power loss of a channel impulse response due to a sampling time offset between receiving and emission nodes, extracting an effective multipath component from the channel impulse response by adopting an adaptive noise threshold, and framing the effective multipath component and corresponding time and location information for storage; and step 3: fusing framed channel data in terms of space, time, and frequency dimensions, and completing missing channel data to generate a wide-area spatial channel map.

5 . The surveying and mapping method for the wide-area spatial channel map through the multi-UAV cooperation according to claim 4 , wherein in step 1, the channel measurement parameters comprise a center frequency f, a sampling rate f s , a measurement signal length N seq , a sinc filter oversampling rate I, a reference unit length W, a protection unit quantity N P , and a false alarm probability P, wherein sinc(·) denotes a sinc function; and
the measurement signal x[n] is generated based on the configured measurement parameters:

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wherein n=0, 1, . . . , N seq −1, and j denotes an imaginary number.

6 . The surveying and mapping method for the wide-area spatial channel map through the multi-UAV cooperation according to claim 5 , wherein step 2 comprises following specific substeps:
step 2.1: obtaining the original channel impulse response h s [n]:

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Assignees

• Univ Nanjing Aeronautics & Astronautics

Inventors

• Zhu Qiuming
• Mao Kai
• Qiu Yanheng
• Chen Xiaomin
• Hua Boyu
• Lin Zhipeng
• Ye Xuchao
• Zhong Weizhi
• Duan Fuqiao
• Wu Qihui

Classifications

• H04B17/309

  Measuring or estimating channel quality parameters · CPC title

• H04W4/02 Primary

  Services making use of location information · CPC title

• G01C21/3848

  Data obtained from both position sensors and additional sensors · CPC title

• G01C21/3841

  Data obtained from two or more sources, e.g. probe vehicles · CPC title

• Y02D30/70

  in wireless communication networks · CPC title