Unmanned Aircraft Capture and Control Via GPS Spoofing

Crowd-GPS-Sec: Leveraging Crowdsourcing to Detect and Localize GPS Spoofing Attacks

The aviation industry’s increasing reliance on GPS to facilitate navigation and air traffic monitoring opens new attack vectors with the purpose of hijacking UAVs or interfering with air safety. We propose Crowd-GPS-Sec to detect and localize GPS spoofing attacks on moving airborne targets such as UAVs or commercial airliners. Unlike previous attempts to secure GPS, Crowd-GPS-Sec neither requir...

Designing and Modeling a Control System for Aircraft in the Presence of Wind Disturbance (TECHNICAL NOTE)

This paper proposes a switching adaptive control for trajectory tracking of unmanned aircraft systems. The switching adaptive control method is designed to overcome the wind disturbance and achieve a proper tracking performance for control systems. In the suggested system, the wind disturbance is regarded as a finite set of uncertainties; a controller is designed for each uncertainty, and a per...

In-Trim Flight Investigations of a Conceptual Fluidic Thrust-Vectored Unmanned Tail-Sitter Aircraft

The feasibility of using a stand alone Fluidic Thrust-Vectoring (FTV) system for the purpose of longitudinal trim of an unmanned aerial vehicle is the focus of the research presented in this paper. Since the fluidic thrust vectoring requires high pressure secondary air to deflect the engine exhaust gases, this research also provides an analytical toolset for preliminary sizing of a suitable sec...

Statement on the Vulnerability of Civil Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Other Systems to Civil Gps Spoofing

GPS Receiver Protection Requirement for Unmanned Ariel Vehicle

In the area of military avionics, the most promising application areas of Global Positioning System (GPS) include missile guidance, Unmanned Ariel Vehicle (UAV) guidance and control and precision aircraft landings. Though spread spectrum technique is used for GPS anti-jamming requirements, but this alone fails to ensure protection of GPS receiver from jamming vulnerability. The existing guidanc...