RF Design for Tactical Ultra-Light Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Radar System

摘要

The Radar Division of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has developed the radio frequency (RF) section of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) radar system in support of the Navy's Tactical Ultra-Light (TUL) UAV program. This RF section consists of a local oscillator (LO) and timing-circuitry module, transmit and receive modules, and a calibration network. The objective of the UAV Radar project was to develop and demonstrate the feasibility of a target detection concept for the TUL UAV system. This concept includes hardware and digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms for target detection in high clutter and foilage with low false-track rates. The hardware effort described represents a significant contribution to the Navy's ability to field a TUL UAV system with an effective radar capability.