Identifying UAV Swarm Command Methods and Individual Craft Roles Using Only Passive Sensing

Anti-drone technologies that attack drone clusters or swarms autonomous command technologies may need to identify the type of command system being utilized and the various roles of particular UAVs within the system. This paper presents a set of algorithms to identify what swarm command method is being used and the role of particular drones within a swarm or cluster of UAVs utilizing only passive sensing techniques (which cannot be detected). A testing configuration for validating the algorithms is also discussed.

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