SMALL, ROTOR POWERED, UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL DETERMINATION USING BIO-INSPIRED MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SENSORS
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Authors
Hatch, David J.
Subjects
Ormia ochracea
angle of arrival
AOA
drone
UAV
MEMS sensor
acoustic
detection
direction
direction of arrival
DOA
angle of arrival
AOA
drone
UAV
MEMS sensor
acoustic
detection
direction
direction of arrival
DOA
Advisors
Durante Pereira Alves, Fabio D.
Karunasiri, Gamani
Date of Issue
2022-06
Date
June 2022
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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Abstract
Previous research developed a bio-inspired microelectromechanical system (MEMS) acoustic sensor,
based on the hearing organ of the parasitic fly Ormia ochracea. It was previously demonstrated that
the direction of a small, rotor powered, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can be estimated using this
acoustic sensor. Building on this previous work, the objective of this study was to develop a
method to unambiguously determine the direction of arrival of the sound of small UAVs using an array of
collocated MEMS sensors. This task was performed under the premise that the directional response of the
sensors in the array could be modified to exhibit an asymmetric dipole pattern or a cardioid pattern.
The proposed DOA estimation method, using comparison across normalized calibration curves, was
analyzed across several different conditions. Promising results were obtained, where the best accuracy
was found for the array with a cardioid directional pattern. Error was as low as one degree across a
360° azimuth range for signal-to-noise ratios of 20 dB and higher for a small hexacopter UAV. The
developed method can be applied to determine the direction of arrival of potentially any acoustic source
detectable by the MEMS sensors.
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Thesis
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Includes Supplementary Material
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Physics
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