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Exploitation of 5G, LTE, and Automatic Identification System Signals for Fallback Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Navigation

Abstract

Reliable Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) is becoming more and more important, considering the proliferation of highly autonomous safety- and liability-critical systems. Due to their vulnerability to various threats such as deliberate Radio Frequency Interference (RFI), including jamming, spoofing, and others, there is significant research into finding backup/fallback solutions that allow safe mission completion or termination. This work compares two such systems: one based on Angle of Arrival (AoA) measurement and one based on cellular (4G and 5G) signals. The results are generated using simulations, which are substantiated by real-world performance measurements. It is shown that both systems have the potential to serve as backup navigation solutions and that the cellular system outperforms the AoA-based solution, albeit at a much higher price and with higher computational requirements.

Category

Academic article

Client

  • Research Council of Norway (RCN) / 305051

Language

English

Author(s)

Affiliation

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • SINTEF Digital / Sustainable Communication Technologies

Year

2025

Published in

Engineering Proceedings

ISSN

2673-4591

Publisher

MDPI

Volume

88

Issue

1

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