Commercial Fixed-Wing Drone Redirection System using GNSS Deception

Abstract

As drones become more common today, the threat of reconnaissance or attack drones to core facilities has increased, and countermeasures against them have become essential. In this study, a drone redirection system was proposed to counter illegal intrusion of commercial fixed-wing drones. The drone redirection system was designed as a closed-loop system that automatically redirects the drone to a target position. The main novelty of this study is a proposal for a system that can automatically redirect a commercial fixed-wing drone, which has not been previously explored. We proposed two strategies for redirecting drones. Additionally, simple drone modeling with a path-following algorithm was used to easily model various drones. The drone model was then tuned using flight test data, and the results were compared. Simulations were performed on the designed drone redirection system model to verify the performance of the two proposed strategies for redirecting drones in conjunction with drone fail-detection and innovation check. The performance of the drone redirection system was assessed through flight tests of Remo-M and simulations of Micropilot's hardware-in-the-loop simulator (HWILS). Through simple drone modeling, drone flight tests, and the test results from HWILS, it was proved that the drone redirection system can be applied to various fixed-wing drones.