Sensors (Feb 2023)

UWB Sensing for UAV and Human Comparative Movement Characterization

  • Angela Digulescu,
  • Cristina Despina-Stoian,
  • Florin Popescu,
  • Denis Stanescu,
  • Dragos Nastasiu,
  • Dragos Sburlan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/s23041956
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 4
p. 1956

Abstract

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Nowadays, unmanned aerial vehicles/drones are involved in a continuously growing number of security incidents. Therefore, the research interest in drone versus human movement detection and characterization is justified by the fact that such devices represent a potential threat for indoor/office intrusion, while normally, a human presence is allowed after passing several security points. Our paper comparatively characterizes the movement of a drone and a human in an indoor environment. The movement map was obtained using advanced signal processing methods such as wavelet transform and the phase diagram concept, and applied to the signal acquired from UWB sensors.

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