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18.3 Emulation and Measurement Design
Emulation uses emulated hardware (not real UAV) to test the antenna performance. It avoids
the use of an expensive sUAV by emulating point-to-point, mobility-aware RF communications.
We propose to use two approaches to emulate sUAV communications: one is based on ZigBee-
compliant embedded system boards that allow the convenient replacement of the antenna; the
other is to use an RC car for a longer distance RF link test.
18.3.1 Emulation Platform 1: Use ZigBee System
as the Antenna Testing Platform
Our ultimate goal is to use a real sUAV to ...