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drone positioning system, multi-beam technique, coordinate measurement, drone navigation, coded beams.

The multi beam drone positioning system for automatic measurements of drone coordinates is presented. One part of this system is installed round a landing pad or a goods delivery pad. It forms a set of low-energy optical beams of definite shapes in three-dimensional space. Each beam transmits a digital code that characterizes its location relatively this pad. Second part of this system is a small set of miniature photodetector units that are fixed under a drone. The paper describes the technique based of the beam code analysis for calculation of drone coordinates relatively a landing pad. This system guarantees the accuracy that is necessary for accurate drone taking off, landing or goods delivery without usage of an expensive digital camera or a human operator. The advantages and possible applications of these sensors are also discussed.

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1. Gunjan M., Sonia M., “Drone Package Delivery Market”, report of Allied market research. Sep. 2022. P. 339. Report Code: A07127.
2. Jeon H. Harriet and Lucarelli, Claudio and Mazarati, Jean Baptiste and Ngabo, Donatien and Song, Hummy. “Leapfrogging for Last-mile Delivery in Health Care”. October 12. 2022. URL: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.2139/ssrn.4214918.
3. Amazon Staff “Amazon Prime Air prepares for drone deliveries”. June 13. 2022. URL: https://www. aboutamazon.com/news/transportation/amazon-prime-air-prepares-for-drone-deliveries
4. D. Averin, V. Borovytsky and V. Mykytenko, “Drone positioning systems that uses digital cameras,” Bulletin of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Series Instrument Making. July 2022. URL: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.20535/1970.63(1).2022.260632.
5. D. Averin, V. Borovytsky and S. Tuzhanskyi, “Local positioning system for drones without usage of digital cameras”. Optoelectronic Information-Power Technologies. Vol. 42. No. 2. P. 5–11. October 2022. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.31649/1681-7893-2021-42-2-5-11.
6. V. Borovytsky and D. Averin “Optical-Electronic positioning system”. Ukraine Patent 141943, 2020.
7. V. Borovytsky and D. Averin “Optical sensor for drone coordinate measurements,” Proc. SPIE. Vol. 11352. 2020.
8. Averin D., & Borovytskyi V. (2023). Multi-beam optical sensor for measuring drone coordinates. Bulletin of Cherkasy State Technological University. (1). Р. 5–12. URL: https://doi.org/10.24025/2306-4412. 1.2023.267070.
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11. Anderson, “Fundamentals of aerodynamics”, 6th ed. Columbus, OH: McGraw-Hill Education, 2016.