An Autonomous Counter-Drone System with Jamming and Relative Positioning Capabilities
Nicolas Souli, Panayiotis Kolios, Georgios Ellinas
Abstract
With the rise of the number of unauthorized operations of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), versatile counter-drone systems are becoming a necessity. In this work, a counter-drone system is developed, where a pursuer drone employs algorithms for detecting and tracking a rogue drone, in conjunction with wireless interception capabilities to jam the rogue drone, while also jointly achieving self positioning for the pursuer drone. In the proposed system, a software-defined-radio (SDR) is used for switching between jamming transmissions and spectrum sweeping functionalities to achieve the desired GPS disruption and self-localization, respectively. Extensive field experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed solution in a real-world environment under various parameter settings.