{"title":"Hierarchical Model Predictive Control for Obstacle Avoidance in Airborne Radar Based Detect-and-Avoid Systems Operating in a Varying Environment","authors":"Hongru Li, W. Kinsner","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE49342.2022.9926816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE49342.2022.9926816","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a model predictive control (MPC) based obstacle avoidance trajectory generation in uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS). The system aims to generate desired trajectories for the avoidance of flying aircraft with constant velocity within the collision avoidance threshold. This approach presents a two-layered MPC architecture incorporating a collision cone technique to achieve real-time avoidance of dynamic obstacles in non-cooperative sensor-based beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) operation scenarios. The efficiency of the presented real-time solution is achieved by using a fast analytic collision cone technique for path planning and effective initial guesses for path tracking.","PeriodicalId":126584,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114510004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yewande Mariam Aragbaiye, Amirbahador Mansoori, C. Shafai, D. Isleifson
{"title":"Implementing a Prototype of a Short-Backfire Antenna Using Additive Manufacturing","authors":"Yewande Mariam Aragbaiye, Amirbahador Mansoori, C. Shafai, D. Isleifson","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE49342.2022.9926776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE49342.2022.9926776","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the implementation of a waveguide-fed short backfire (SBF) antenna prototype using additive manufacturing techniques (also known as three-dimensional (3D) printing). The prototyping technique is a two-step process. First, a 3D printing technique was used to construct a lightweight plastic material prototype with Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS). Second, the prototype was coated with conductive nickel paint. The antenna was simulated and tested to verify its performance. The weight of the 3D printed SBF antenna was measured to be about 30% of the original aluminum design (70% reduction in mass).","PeriodicalId":126584,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124535979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SDN-based Federated Learning approach for Satellite-IoT Framework to Enhance Data Security and Privacy in Space Communication","authors":"Ryhan Uddin, Sathish A. P. Kumar","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE49342.2022.9926943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE49342.2022.9926943","url":null,"abstract":"The proliferation of IoT devices and integration of machine learning technologies paved the path towards automation in various sectors guided by Artificial intelligence (AI). It enables multitudes of use cases ranging from mass scale cloud-edge computing based robust communication between smart IoT devices, weather variation detecting low powered remote sensor nodes residing on a harsh terrain, AI-assisted driverless vehicles immaculately cruising through traffic to industrial robots performing sophisticated tasks with precision and finesse. As space colonization is a becoming a myth of the past and venturing towards reality, this AI-based IoT ubiquity will also be a major mart of those space colonies where autonomous infrastructures with be the norm. These IoT integrated networks will also boast a wide area of coverage reaching the furthest of the horizons with low orbit satellite integration. However, the mass deployment of these modern technologies is heavily contingent to the fact that data is safeguarded from malicious intrusions. Therefore, in this paper we have proposed an approach to thwart data breach that can plague satellite-IoT framework with respect to space communication. The framework is based on software defined networking that uses federated learning techniques for distributed systems and employs deferential privacy while sharing data among devices to ensure secured critical data transmission between IoT devices.","PeriodicalId":126584,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115068270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fault Detection and Correction Using Observation Domain Optimization for GNSS Applications","authors":"Fahimul Haque, V. Dehghanian, A. Fapojuwo","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE49342.2022.9926799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE49342.2022.9926799","url":null,"abstract":"Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is ubiquitously used and integrated into a variety of applications that require accurate and reliable positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT). The rapid growth in research and development into autonomous and semi-autonomous land and aerial vehicle platforms in recent years has redefined industry standards for accurate and reliable PNT. To ensure the integrity of a PNT solution, effective fault detection and exclusion/correction (FDE/C) is needed. Least-squares residuals (LSR) and solution separation (SS) are two well-known receiver autonomous integrity monitoring (RAIM) methods. LSR is computationally efficient but is not applicable, nor is theoretically correct, in scenarios where multiple faulty observations are present. While SS is effective for detecting and isolating multiple faulty observations at a time, it has high computational complexity, hence not suitable for most real-time applications. Other existing fault classifier methods lack the industry required performance due to either data generalization and/or high computational complexity. A novel scalable multi-fault detection and correction method is presented here. As demonstrated by our analysis and test results based on both simulated and real data, the proposed method outperforms LSR providing a more accurate PNT solution and is 80% more computationally efficient than SS under nominal multi-constellation scenarios with 30 or more satellites used in the position estimation.","PeriodicalId":126584,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116831024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shirin Ramezanzadehyazdi, C. Shafai, D. Isleifson, L. Shafai, Philip Ferguson
{"title":"An Optically Transparent Meshed Patch Antenna With Enhanced Bandwidth for CubeSat Applications","authors":"Shirin Ramezanzadehyazdi, C. Shafai, D. Isleifson, L. Shafai, Philip Ferguson","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE49342.2022.9926940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE49342.2022.9926940","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a new transparent stacked meshed patch antenna resonating at 2.5 GHz that offers wide impedance bandwidth and high efficiency along with light-weight and high integrability with CubeSat solar cells. The bandwidth improvement comes from two meshed square patches that are placed on top of each other and have two close resonance frequencies. The first design consists of two Fused Silica glass substrates with an overall height of 5 mm in which the first layer acts as both antenna's substrate and solar cell cover glass. The antenna demonstrates an impedance bandwidth of 6.1%, peak gain of 6.9 dBi, and efficiency higher than 90%. The results were a motivation for further exploration of the performance of the stacked antenna with a sacrificial polymer material between two patches resulting in a lightweight antenna. The second antenna is lighter by 30% at the expense of lower efficiency. Further weight reduction is applied by partially removing the sacrificial polymer. All the proposed antennas have transparency higher than 90%. Thus, they can be placed directly on top of the solar cells without a significant effect on the solar cell's efficiency.","PeriodicalId":126584,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE)","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124666292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Feng Lu, Akira Yamaguchi, Kazunori Takeuchi, H. Shinbo
{"title":"Experimental Investigation of the Reflection Characteristics of a Flat Lunar Surface","authors":"Feng Lu, Akira Yamaguchi, Kazunori Takeuchi, H. Shinbo","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE49342.2022.9926770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE49342.2022.9926770","url":null,"abstract":"The knowledge and characterization of radio propagation is important for a wireless communication system as it is key to the design of the coverage area of the system's base station. Since the lunar surface is covered by a soil-like regolith layer, which includes more metal compounds than the surface soil on Earth, radio propagation on the lunar surface may be different from that on Earth. To assess radio propagation at the lunar surface, the authors measured the reflection coefficients of a regolith simulant (a simulated lunar soil) at several frequencies used by mobile communication systems. The results of the experiments show that the flat ground reflection characteristics on the Moon are similar to those on Earth.","PeriodicalId":126584,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129693947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS)-Aided GNSS for Urban Areas","authors":"Hongzhao Zheng, M. Atia, H. Yanikomeroglu","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE49342.2022.9926812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE49342.2022.9926812","url":null,"abstract":"Today the global averaged civilian positioning accuracy is still at meter level for all existing Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs), and the civilian positioning performance is even worse in regions such as the Arctic region and the urban areas. In this work, we examine the positioning performance of the High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS)-aided GPS system in an urban area via both simulation and physical experiment. HAPS can support GNSS in many ways, herein we treat the HAPS as an additional ranging source. From both simulation and experiment results, we can observe that HAPS can improve the horizontal dilution of precision (HDOP) and the 3D positioning accuracy. The simulated positioning performance of the HAPS-aided GPS system is subject to the estimation accuracy of the receiver clock offset. This work also presents the future work and challenges in modelling the pseudorange of HAPS.","PeriodicalId":126584,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE)","volume":"253 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121880945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jian Liu, A. Nazeri, Chunheng Zhao, Esmail M. M. Abuhdima, G. Comert, Chin-Tser Huang, P. Pisu
{"title":"Investigation of 5G and 4G V2V Communication Channel Performance Under Severe Weather","authors":"Jian Liu, A. Nazeri, Chunheng Zhao, Esmail M. M. Abuhdima, G. Comert, Chin-Tser Huang, P. Pisu","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE49342.2022.9926867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE49342.2022.9926867","url":null,"abstract":"As all three major US mobile carriers have launched their own 5G networks and are working hard to expand their coverage nationwide, 5G has come into everyone's daily life. 5G networks use millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) for higher speeds, while 4G long-term evolution (LTE) networks favor lower-band spectrum for better coverage. Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication enables wireless communication between cars and exchanges their speed, location, and acceleration information. 5G mm-Wave and 4G LTE bands are used in V2V sidelink transmissions. These two wireless channels are affected by different weather conditions, such as rain, snow, dust, and sand. Compared with 4G networks, 5G networks are designed to accommodate the increasing number of devices with higher transfer speed, lower latency, and improved security. However, our study shows that severe weather degrades the 5G performance more significantly than 4G. In this paper, we use NS-3 as a simulator to study the effect of harsh weather of dust or sand on the propagating loss of 5G mm-Wave and 4G LTE signal. We investigate their performance degradation and use a time-series machine learning technique, long short-term memory (LSTM), to predict future signal strength for 5G and 4G. Our simulation results show that LSTM performs good forecasting for signal strength, and we plan to design a system that can dynamically choose the better wireless channel in the future.","PeriodicalId":126584,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132120465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of Regional and Seasonal Power Demand on Scaling Space Solar Power Systems","authors":"R. Madonna, Aarush Kukreja","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE49342.2022.9926937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE49342.2022.9926937","url":null,"abstract":"The impact on the scaling of space solar power systems (SSPS) due to regional variations in climate and seasonal variations in temperature is examined here. We use actual demand data for 2016 for two cities located in two different climate zones within the U.S. and develop SSPS to provide base load supply for each city. The demand data are scaled so that the annual demand for each city is equal. This scaling allows for direct comparison of SSPS scaling, while preserving the shape of the respective demand curves, which are largely driven by temperature, hence local climate. We consider two SSPS architectures - Constant power (e.g., NASA/DoE reference system) and the Caltech Space Solar Power Project architecture. We find the SSPS scaling for both architectures is driven by the peak demand day, which in turn is driven by peak temperatures. This leads to a generalization that an SSPS providing base load supply is tailored to a specific location and may not be easily dispatched to provide base load supply to another location without some risk of either over or under production of energy. We discuss how we compensate for loss of power to the ground during eclipse seasons by slightly increasing the size of the onorbit power station and storing the additional generated energy in short term, utility scale energy storage for use during eclipse periods.","PeriodicalId":126584,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132297892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Schaechtle, Bibhu Kar, George Fischer, Andrea Gabbrielli, Fabian Höflinger, U. Wallrabe, S. Rupitsch
{"title":"Acoustically Coupled Passive Wireless Sensor System With Mechanical Resonant Sensor","authors":"T. Schaechtle, Bibhu Kar, George Fischer, Andrea Gabbrielli, Fabian Höflinger, U. Wallrabe, S. Rupitsch","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE49342.2022.9926923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE49342.2022.9926923","url":null,"abstract":"Aviation and aerospace are challenging applications for instrumentation technologies. Under these harsh environmental conditions, passive wireless sensor technology has proven itself to be functional. However, if an electrically conductive media is present between the read-out unit and the wireless sensor, electromagnetic waves will be strongly attenuated. In contrast, acoustic waves have good transmission properties through fluid or solid media and are, therefore, suitable under such conditions. In this contribution, we propose a novel concept of an acoustically coupled passive wireless sensor system with a robust, purely mechanical resonator as sensing element. The novel concept combines the passive sensor technology with an acoustic communication channel and a robust mechanical resonator serves as sensing element, which can be directly excited with an acoustic wave. The concept is implemented with an electromechanical transducer and a mechanical resonator at an operation frequency of 33kHz.","PeriodicalId":126584,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122355598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}