Fundamentals of the Polarimetric UAV Landing System

Abstract

The paper deal with the question of developing the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) landing system, which would allow to determine flight and navigation UAV parameters during landing. The paper analyzes in detail the existing UAV's landing systems. It is shown that the main direction of improvement in the UAV landing is to increase the UAV injection accuracy to the optimal landing point with defined motion parameters to provide the optimal approach and landing trajectory. Also, the paper proposes the polarimetric principle for determining the UAV position during landing and the polarimetric principle for forming a landing glide for UAVs of aircraft and helicopter types. The paper proposes a polarimetric UAV landing system, which provides determining the basic UAV flight and navigation parameters during landing. The paper provides mathematical modeling results of the proposed landing system's operation. The proposed landing system provides determining UAV deviation from the optimal landing trajectory and its attitude with high accuracy and sensitivity.