Review of Counter-UAV Solutions Based on the Detection of Remote Control Communication

Abstract

One of the problems that we face today is the illegal use of drones. Monitoring the RF transmissions has proved to be a reliable technique for detecting and identifying such devices. Although there are some solutions on the market for detection and jamming, they are not always successful. The aim of this paper is to analyze the typical communications used by drone manufacturers, which usually implement their own algorithms, and to propose a more robust solution that would consider the range of characteristics that these protocols have. A wide-band energy detection with adaptive threshold is used for extracting specifications of some remote control communications that use spread spectrum modulation.