A Hardware Platform for Non-cooperative UAV Detection and Location

Civil unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is an increasing threat to personal privacy and public safety. Passive UAV detection and localization is a hot topic. This paper presents a platform with six synchronized channels for real-time locating the UAV. In this system, an antenna array is arranged in a short baseline, and its matching RF front-end adopts the synchronous design. The front-end supports a sweep frequency from 230MHz to 6GHz. The passive location functions are implemented with the hardware processing unit and a computer. The rational division of algorithms helps accelerate the algorithm and realize a real-time performance. Finally, an experiment was designed to test it. The results of the experiment proved the ability and accuracy of the platform.