Networked Radar Systems for Cooperative Tracking of UAVs

To enable expanded and safer access for unmanned aerial vehicles in the National Airspace System, a reliable system to detect and track them needs to be established. This paper combines two radar systems into a single network to provide tracking of UAVs across a wide area. Each radar detects the UAV's path and those detections are combined into tracks using a recursive random sample consensus algorithm. Outdoor flight experiments show the ability of the system to track a UAV across two different radar fields of view.