Научный вестник МГТУ ГА (Apr 2021)

Telecommunication of communication and control systems on unmanned aerial vehicles platforms

  • A. V. Poltavsky

DOI
https://doi.org/10.26467/2079-0619-2021-24-2-58-69
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 2
pp. 58 – 69

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The review article discusses the possibility of using tethered high-altitude telecommunication platforms (VTPS) based on unmanned aerial vehicles (as tethered UAVs), which are also called – "tethered drones" Flying COWs (Cell on Wings). Their essence lies in the fact that sufficiently high electrical voltage is applied to a flexible metal cable from a ground-based mobile control point in order to solve the multidisciplinary VTP tasks for the local cellular coverage on a vast territory. These unmanned aerial systems with VTP and tethered UAVs, which retransmit signals in relation to a specific area as a part of the objects of modern geo information systems (GIS) covering particular regions, territories and hard-to-reach areas with a radio signal can find its fairly wide application in the near future, besides radio or optical communication of VTP can be used as a network of telecommunication channels for receiving/transmitting information.

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