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Ultra Wideband Ranging and Link Budget Design for Naval Crane Applications

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dc.contributor.authorVolos, Haris I.en
dc.contributor.committeechairBuehrer, R. Michaelen
dc.contributor.committeememberEllingson, Steven W.en
dc.contributor.committeememberReed, Jeffrey H.en
dc.contributor.departmentElectrical and Computer Engineeringen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:40:14Zen
dc.date.adate2006-07-28en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:40:14Zen
dc.date.issued2006-06-01en
dc.date.rdate2006-07-28en
dc.date.sdate2006-06-19en
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis a UWB-based ranging scheme is designed, simulated, implemented and tested. This system was designed to address the problem of safely unloading cargo crates to ships in the open seas. UWB antennas are placed on the four corners of the cargo crate, providing the information needed to a ranging/positioning algorithm that estimates the orientation and distance of the ship's deck from the crate. Furthermore, the system is successfully tested in a 1/24 scale demonstration. In addition to the UWB ranging application, this thesis evaluates an already proposed modification to the traditional narrowband link budget based on the Friis transmission formula. The proposed modification replaces frequency-domain parameters with time-domain values to handle the wide bandwidth of UWB systems. The proposed approach is shown via measurements to be much more accurate than the traditional technique.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-06192006-011131en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06192006-011131/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/33652en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartthesis.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectLink Budgeten
dc.subjectRangingen
dc.subjectUWBen
dc.titleUltra Wideband Ranging and Link Budget Design for Naval Crane Applicationsen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineElectrical and Computer Engineeringen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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