Project
# | Title | Team Members | TA | Documents | Sponsor |
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5 | Passive Radar |
Benjamin Du Kyle Rogers Rushik Desai |
Kyle Michal | design_document3.pdf final_paper3.pdf other3.zip other2.pdf presentation1.pdf proposal1.pdf |
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Team Members: Rushik Desai (rhdesai3), Benjamin Du (bldu2), Kyle Rogers (krroger2) We will be working on the Passive Radar project idea proposed by Professor Levchenko. General Description: Radar technology has existed for many decades. Primarily, radars have been implemented using active transceiver systems. Passive radars are a supplement to active radars. The benefits of passive radars are they don't transmit, and they are low-powered devices. Current commercial applications and services of passive radars are expensive, while hobbyist designs vary in degree in terms of cost and performance. Solution: We propose to create an affordable (<$100) and accurate (<10m), community based, passive radar system consisting of a network of 4+ receivers which are connected to a central server. The complexity of this project can be broken down into three main challenges: 1. Creating a valid time stamp for a correctly received transponder signal. 2. The integration of different interfaces and systems: power over ethernet, RF front end, GPS. 3. Network communication between the receivers and a central server, which uses trilateration in order to compute the aircraft’s position. Subsystems: RF Front End (Receives transponder signal, decodes it, converts it to digital data) GPS (GPSDO for time granularity/accuracy, time stamp generator) Microcontroller (processes GPS time data and verifies transponder data before sending it to the) POE (provides power and allows for central server communication) Network communication (uses a hosted website to compute position as well as display data) More specifications/details about the project can be found in our original post: https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/ece445/pace/view-topic.asp?id=30316 |