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(Redirected from Radio beacons)
'Electric beacon's are used with direction finding equipment to find ones relative bearing to a known location (the beacon).
Electric beacons includes radio, infrared and sonar beacons.
A 'radio beacon' is non-directional transmitter that usually transmits a constant signal on a specified radio frequency.
Before the days of VOR, GPS, LORAN, beacons were used for map localization. In any case, they are nowadays used for robotic mapping and indoor guide.
There are several different kinds of beacons.
In aviation there is a beacon called NDB or Non-directional Beacon. These are used to help find airports and conduct instrument approaches. These beacons will be decommissioned over the next few years as they have been replaced with newer better technologies.
There also in the past were marine beacons for use at sea, but most cases these no longer are in service.
There are also amateur radio beacons that are used to test propagation of radio signals.
Beacons are also used in both geostationary and inclined orbit satellites. Any satellite will emit one or more beacons (normally at a fixed frequency) whose purpose is twofold; as well as containing modulated station keeping information, the beacon is used to 'find' the satellite in the sky.
Any AM, VHF, or UHF radio station can also be used as a beacon with direction finding.
★ Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
★ Localization
★ Robotic mapping
★ An Accurate and Cheap Navigation System for Robots, using sonar beacons.
★ Minimum-resource distributed navigation and mapping, using IR beacon.
Telegraph Signal Tower at Cobb's Hill, near New Market, Virginia, 1864.
'Electric beacon's are used with direction finding equipment to find ones relative bearing to a known location (the beacon).
Electric beacons includes radio, infrared and sonar beacons.
| Contents |
| Radio beacon |
| Kinds |
| Infrared beacon |
| Sonar beacon |
| See also |
| External links |
Radio beacon
A 'radio beacon' is non-directional transmitter that usually transmits a constant signal on a specified radio frequency.
Before the days of VOR, GPS, LORAN, beacons were used for map localization. In any case, they are nowadays used for robotic mapping and indoor guide.
Kinds
There are several different kinds of beacons.
In aviation there is a beacon called NDB or Non-directional Beacon. These are used to help find airports and conduct instrument approaches. These beacons will be decommissioned over the next few years as they have been replaced with newer better technologies.
There also in the past were marine beacons for use at sea, but most cases these no longer are in service.
There are also amateur radio beacons that are used to test propagation of radio signals.
Beacons are also used in both geostationary and inclined orbit satellites. Any satellite will emit one or more beacons (normally at a fixed frequency) whose purpose is twofold; as well as containing modulated station keeping information, the beacon is used to 'find' the satellite in the sky.
Any AM, VHF, or UHF radio station can also be used as a beacon with direction finding.
Infrared beacon
Sonar beacon
See also
★ Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
★ Localization
★ Robotic mapping
External links
★ An Accurate and Cheap Navigation System for Robots, using sonar beacons.
★ Minimum-resource distributed navigation and mapping, using IR beacon.
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