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Design Of A Drone-Flight-Enabled Wireless Isolation Chamber, John Wensowitch
Design Of A Drone-Flight-Enabled Wireless Isolation Chamber, John Wensowitch
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
The next wave of drone applications is moving from repeatable, single-drone activities such as evaluating propagation environments to team-based, multi-drone objectives such as drone-based emergency services. In parallel, testbeds have sought to evaluate emerging concepts such as highly-directional and distributed wireless communications. However, there is a lack of intersection between the two works to characterize the impact of the drone body, antenna placement, swarm topologies, and multi-dimensional connectivity needs that require in-flight experimentation with a surrounding testbed infrastructure. In this work, we design a drone-flight-enabled isolation chamber to capture complex spatial wireless channel relationships that drone links experience as applications …