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ArticleScientific reports2025

Relative DOA estimation method for UAV swarm based on phase difference information without fixed anchors.

Yi Han, Jingjing Zhang, Jinglin Luo

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Yi HanSchool of Intelligent Manufacturing and Equipment, Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology, Shenzhen, 518172, China.
Jingjing ZhangSchool of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation, Foshan University, Foshan, 528225, Guangdong, China. jingjing@fosu.edu.cn.
Jinglin LuoFoshan Zhishi Technology Co., Ltd, Foshan, Guangdong, China.

Funding

Guangdong University information technology key field 2021ZDZX1057National Natural Science Foundation of China 52005106
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Abstract

A key challenge for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms is achieving inter-aircraft relative direction of arrival (DOA) estimation in global navigation satellite system (GNSS) denied environments without relying on fixed base stations. This paper proposes a Ultra-wide Bandwidth (UWB) based method where each UAV acts as both a transmitter and receiver, effectively functioning as a mobile base station. A theoretical framework for all-directional DOA estimation using a regular tetrahedral array is derived, resolving phase ambiguities via a genetic algorithm (GA) with phase difference information. Simulation results demonstrate that GA-UWB algorithm has a better performance than WP-UWB. When considering noise both in time difference and phase difference information, the algorithm proposed in this paper has a higher success rate.

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All-directional DOA EstimationGNSS-denied environmentNo base stationUAV swarm

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PMID40275049
PMCPMC12022140

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