eess.SP · 2609.17797 Copy arXiv ID · Sep 15, 2026 Save Set-membership localization of intermittent RF sources using a fleet of collaborating UAVs Authors: Jacques Bois , Raul de Lacerda , Michel Kieffer
Organizations: Universit´e Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CentraleSup´elec, Laboratoire des Signaux et Syst`emes, 91192, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Abstract This paper proposes a set-membership approach (SMA) to localize radio frequency (RF) sources observed by a collaborating fleet of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Considering frequency-separable RF transmitters with intermittent and periodic emission patterns, %and unknown but bounded periods the SMA evaluates set estimates of the source locations and a set free of sources. Simulation results show that SMA outperforms a Bayesian baseline approach in terms of localization accuracy and convergence speed.
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