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Tracking Drones with Drones Using Millimeter Wave Radar

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Robot 2019: Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT 2019)

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Abstract

The use of drones has seen a surge in the last few years with their employment in a large variety of applications. However, this popularity has also made improper drone use a threat to privacy, economy and human lives, requiring the development of methods to detect and track drones. In this work, we present and experimentally validate an airborne drone detection system that utilizes a millimeter wave radar system to detect and follow target drones.

This work has been supported by OE - national funds of FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC) under project UID/EEA/00048/2019.

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    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/man-suffers-serious-burns-while-attempting-to-recover-drone-1.3940450.

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    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jun/17/flights-delayed-as-drones-fly-near-east-midlands-airport-download-festival.

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    https://www.todayonline.com/commentary/what-can-singapore-do-counter-rogue-drones-and-airport-incursions.

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    https://www.todayonline.com/unauthorised-drone-flying-over-changi-airport-causes-37-flight-delays.

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    https://www.ft.com/content/76728798-7636-11e9-be7d-6d846537acab.

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    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/04/world/americas/venezuelan-president-targeted-in-attack-attempt-minister-says.html.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute of Systems and Robotics, University of Coimbra, 3030-290, Coimbra, Portugal

    Sedat Dogru, Rui Baptista & Lino Marques

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  1. School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Manuel F. Silva

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança, Portugal

    José Luís Lima

  3. Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Luís Paulo Reis

  4. UPC, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Alberto Sanfeliu

  5. Centro Universitario de la Defensa (CUD), Zaragoza, Spain

    Danilo Tardioli

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Dogru, S., Baptista, R., Marques, L. (2020). Tracking Drones with Drones Using Millimeter Wave Radar. In: Silva, M., Luís Lima, J., Reis, L., Sanfeliu, A., Tardioli, D. (eds) Robot 2019: Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference. ROBOT 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1093. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36150-1_32

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