Abstract
In the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) performance based navigation strategy announced in 2016, the FAA stated that it would retain and expand the Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) infrastructure to ensure resilient aircraft navigation capability during the event of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) outage. However, the main drawback of the DME as a GNSS back up system is that it requires a significant expansion of the current DME ground infrastructure due to its poor distance measuring accuracy over 100 m. The paper introduces a method to improve DME distance measuring accuracy by using a new DME pulse shape. The proposed pulse shape was developed by using Genetic Algorithms and is less susceptible to multipath effects so that the ranging error reduces by 36.0-77.3% when compared to the Gaussian and Smoothed Concave Polygon DME pulses, depending on noise environment.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 2183 |
| Journal | Sensors (Switzerland) |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 Oct |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgments: The research is supported by the Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement (KAIA) grant funded by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (Grant 16CTAP-C114908-01).
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Analytical Chemistry
- Information Systems
- Biochemistry
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Instrumentation
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering