UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles)

Combined Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Under Electronic Warfare Conditions

We present the concept, architecture, and algorithm of a combined UAV control scheme designed for operation under electronic warfare (EW). The core idea is a “silent” ingress to the task area via a fiber- optic link–carrying command-and-control (C2) and video with no RF emissions–and a return over a protected radio link employing anti-jamming techniques (FHSS/DSSS, narrow-beam antennas, adaptive modulation/coding, power control, AES-GCM cryptography).