In this dissertation, a novel direct radio frequency (RF) sampling method is proposed in order to find out the minimum sampling frequency for an evenly spaced spectrum comprising multiband RF signals. The proposed methodology describes a set of rules to achieve the lowest possible sampling frequency rates without any compromise of spectrum folding or overlap of aliases in baseband after down conversion. It is shown that the minimum sampling rate has a unique relation with the layout of the spectrum of interest (SOI). For instance, if there are N number of information bands of equal bandwidth B in the SOI, then it is possible to down-convert the complete SOI using the sampling rate, 2NB, which is twice of the total information bandwidth only if all bands are evenly spaced in the SOI. Another factor introduced to the achieve the minimum sampling rate is the sparseness-nature in the SOI, which is the ratio of null bandwidth to information bandwidth. The proposed methodology is general in nature and is flexible to the number of input signals or bands as well as to their positions in the desired spectrum. In the proposed research work, simulations are carried out that verify that by using the recommended minimum sampling rates, the desired signal is extractable without any additional computational complexity due to spectrum folding or aliasing-overlap. Our proposed methodology has a vast scope in the design of general-purpose receivers, global navigational satellite system (GNSS) receiver and cognitive radios (CR) because of the use of a low speed ADC. Moreover, the same can be efficiently used to monitor a wide band spectrum in military communications especially for electronic warfare receivers, where reduction of the complexity, size and cost has significant importance. As a model application of our proposed work, we present a composite design for the multiband-multistandard GNSS receiver. The design efficacy is based on the proposed bandpass sampling methodology that transforms the sparse-spectrum electromagnetic environment into a quasi-uniformly spaced spectrum of compact bandwidth, which is more appropriate and useful for simultaneous digitization and down-conversion of analogue signals. In this method, only a part of SOI is transformed to an intermediate frequency. In this way, the desired frequency bands of information that are widely spread, are grouped to form a contiguous-spectrum which is quasi-uniformly spaced. There on, a sub- sampling is carried out for simultaneous digitization and translation of input signals to the first-Nyquist zone. The proposed composite architecture is also helpful to circumvent the higher-order intermodulation components. The proposed design is validated for conventional Global Positioning System L1 and L2 bands and also for new L5 band used in GNSS (GLONASS, Galileo and Beidou) receivers. The presented results show considerable reduction in the sampling rates, and improvement in signal-to-noise and distortion ratio, which can be easily managed by a low sampling analogue to digital conversion.
انصاف کی فراہمی ترقی کازینہ نحمدہ ونصلی علی رسولہ الکریم امّا بعد فاعوذ بااللہ من الشیطن الرجیم بسم اللہ الرحمن الرحیم معزز اسا تذہ کرام اور میرے ہم مکتب شاہینو! آج مجھے جس موضوع پر لب کشائی کرنی ہے وہ ہے:’’انصاف کی فراہمی ترقی کازینہ‘‘ صدرِذی وقار! اس دنیاو مافیہا میں انسان جہاں کہیں بھی آباد ہے وہ اس بات کا متمنی ہے کہ اسے اعلیٰ مقام مل جائے ، اس کو مقام ارفع پرمتمکن کر دیا جائے ، اسے زندگی کی جملہ راحتیں میسر آ جائیں ، اس کی زندگی کے اندھیرے اجالے میں بدل جائیں، اس کے گلشن ہستی میں بہار آجائے ، اس کے آنگن میں عروج وترقی کے گلہائے رنگارنگ کھل اٹھیں۔ جنابِ صدر! اگر کوئی رشوت ستانی کے ذریعے، اقربا پروری کے ذریعے، کساد بازاری کے ذریعے، انارکی کے ذریعے، دھوکہ دہی کے ذریعے ، فریب کاری کے ذریعے، ڈاکہ زنی کے ذریعے، نمودونمائش کے ذریعے ، اور چرب زبانی کے ذریعے ترقی کی منازل طے کرناچاہتا ہے تو یہ اس کی خام خیالی ہے۔ صدرِمحترم! عروج و ترقی کی منازل اگر طے کرنی ہیں تو اقلیم عقل وخرد کی فرمانروائی کو ترک کرنا ہوگا عقل کل کے تصور کی دلدل سے نکلنا ہو گا ، تساہل وغفلت کی عبا کو تار تار کرنا ہوگا، جہد مسلسل اور پیہم کد و کاوش کی خلعتِ فاخرہ کو زیب تن کرنا ہوگا مزید برآں عدل و انصاف کے دروازے پر دستک دینا ہوگی۔ جنابِ صدر! قرآنِ مجید میں ارشادِ باری تعالیٰ ہے کہ ’’اعدلوھو اقرب للتقوی ‘‘ انصاف کرویہ تقو ی کے زیادہ قریب ہے، اورمتقی انسان دنیامیں مقامات رفیعہ کا وارث ہوتا ہے۔ اور آخرت میں بھی حور قصور کے وعدے اس کے لیے ہوتے ہیں ،متقی انسان کی عظمت کے ڈنکے دنیا اور آخرت میں بجائے جاتے ہیں۔...
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Small UAVs, due to their easy handling and lesser logistic support requirements are attracting lot of interest for applications ranging from military to commercial, and even for scientific data collection. In present day scenario, they are mostly used to conduct surveillance, reconnaissance, search and rescue missions for military and civilian outfits. In order to complete the assigned tasks they are usually equipped with surveillance cameras. Unlike their larger counterparts, smaller UAVs by virtue of their size cannot carry sophisticated gyro stabilized cameras. It therefore becomes important to address this shortcoming, in terms of non availability of gyro stabilization by ensuring a smoother flight even in turbulent weather to receive a stable and good quality video from UAV. Growing interest in small UAVs has motivated many equipment manufacturers to develop Off The Shelf autopilots. Being cost effective, simple, flexible and reliable, PID based autopilots are generally preferred for the purpose. Besides number of advantages, PID controllers have a limitation that they sometimes require retuning of the gains when subjected to external disturbance. UAVs perform satisfactorily if the atmospheric conditions do not change much. However, if the UAV moves to a location where the atmospheric conditions change substantially, the PID gains may require readjustment / retuning, which is a tedious job and requires numerous UAV flights; otherwise performance degradations in terms of pitching and rolling oscillations are observed. The above premise formed the basis and source of motivation for this research. It was considered that instead of going for retuning, gain scheduling or replacing the existing, conveniently available PID controller with some intricate or complex controller, a simpler, realizable and effective scheme should be adopted. The basic idea of the proposed scheme was derived from a situation in which a boy sometimes requires a bit of extra hand from his father sitting beside him, while driving through a bumpy and wavy patch of road. Father closely monitors the driving performance of his son on bumpy road and when he thinks that slight help in terms of applying an extra force by holding the steering can improve the capability of his son to negotiate the bad patch, he does so. After passing through bumpy part of road when father senses that the extra effort is no more required, he gradually removes it and his son takes over the car back again as a solo driver. Following the same analogy, the idea was conceived to propose a supervising mechanism which can act like a human pilot and can be augmented with an existing control system of a UAV for improving its performance in presence of atmospheric disturbances without going into exercise of retuning the controller gains. Our supervisory mechanism is composed of two modules, “observer module” and “correction generator module”. We developed a human thinking like logic for observer module so that it keeps monitoring the status of flight through specified inputs and outputs of the system and instructs the correction generator module to augment main controller by adding compensation commands when required i.e. in case undesired attitude error is observed. The second module for correction generation is based on Fuzzy rules, where rule set was developed using input from a UAV pilot. Effort is made to maintain a logical layout of this thesis so that the reader can be familiarized with the theoretical concepts and analysis tools related to UAVs. A small UAV with already published aerodynamic data is taken as a reference bird. In chapter two and three of this thesis detailed explanation about the formulation of its nonlinear mathematical modeling, linearization process to achieve decoupling and simplicity, conducting static and dynamic stability analysis, criteria for flying qualities assessment is given. Designing of PID controllers for attitude, altitude and heading control using linearized UAV models is covered in chapter four. Performance of designed controller is also validated by using nonlinear UAV model. Atmospheric disturbances such as wind shear and turbulence significantly influence the attitude of UAVs. Rotary moments, rolling moments, vertical and lateral wind gusts generated due to moderate to severe turbulence are simulated as atmospheric disturbance. Pitch and roll response in presence of these disturbances are presented. In chapter five the functionality of proposed scheme is discussed in detail and simulations are run to demonstrate improved pitch and roll response under atmospheric disturbance by augmenting the supervisory mechanism. Simulation results showing significant reduction in attitude errors with slight increase in control effort after augmenting the supervisory mechanism are presented. Simulations are run using linear as well as nonlinear model of UAV. Comparison of results obtained from standalone PID controller and augmented system is presented to validate the efficacy of proposed scheme Keywords; UAV Modeling, Stability analysis of UAVs, UAV autopilots, Disturbance rejection in UAVs