An Autonomous Counter-Drone System with Jamming and Relative Positioning Capabilities

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.