UAV-based Localization of Mobile Phones for Search and Rescue Applications

Dorn C, Depold A, Lurz F, Erhardt S, Hagelauer A (2022)

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2022

Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Conference Proceedings Title: 2022 IEEE 22nd Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference, WAMICON 2022

Event location: Clearwater, FL, USA

ISBN: 9781665421959

DOI: 10.1109/WAMICON53991.2022.9786189

Abstract

In this work a system is proposed that utilizes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to search and rescue trapped victims using their mobile phones. The systems consists of two parts, a ground station (GS) and an airborne station (AS). The GS provides a downlink to the UAV, a GSM base station along with antenna equipment and a mobile network jamming device. By using a smart approach to block the synchronization sequences of all base stations in range, the mobile phones of the victims to be located are switching to an emergency fallback mode. In this mode the phones connect to the strongest base station in range, thus the one provided by the GS. By initiating a call to the corresponding phone the AS can localize it using direction-of-arrival detection with a 9-channel phase coherent receiver system.

Authors with CRIS profile

Andreas Depold Lehrstuhl für Technische Elektronik (LTE) Stefan Erhardt Lehrstuhl für Technische Elektronik (LTE)

Involved external institutions

Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH) DE Germany (DE) Technische Universität München (TUM) DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Dorn, C., Depold, A., Lurz, F., Erhardt, S., & Hagelauer, A. (2022). UAV-based Localization of Mobile Phones for Search and Rescue Applications. In 2022 IEEE 22nd Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference, WAMICON 2022. Clearwater, FL, USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..

MLA:

Dorn, Christian, et al. "UAV-based Localization of Mobile Phones for Search and Rescue Applications." Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference, WAMICON 2022, Clearwater, FL, USA Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022.

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