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NATO Builds Prototype C-UAS Machine
Experts at the NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency have built an
experimental prototype system to detect, identify and localize small Unmanned
Aircraft Systems (sUAS) using low-cost commercial devices and machine learning.
The ARTEMIS system (Advanced Recognition
Tool using Electromagnetic (EM) waves for Identifying unmanned aerial Systems)
uses advanced techniques to detect and classify Radio Frequency (RF) signals.
The system can classify what type of signal it is by processing only 40
milliseconds of data, with a probability of correct classification above 90
percent.
The system continuously monitors the
bandwidth where drones normally operate and automatically detects any RF
emissions.
Once detected, a process entirely based
on machine learning and pattern recognition will allow us to classify and
identify the emission,” said Franco Fois, Senior Scientist and ARTEMIS Lead
Engineer. “And this emission could be an emission from Wi-Fi or Bluetooth,
because they are entitled to work in the same band, but it could also be a
drone emission.”
If the signal is found to be from a
drone, the system will also try to calculate the direction of arrival of the
signal to localize the drone. The system can also localize the person who is
controlling the drone from the ground.
The identification of the type of drone
was a key driver of this work, since that information determines the threat
response. Very high percentages of correct classification were achieved in
experiments using up to 10 different drones.
“ARTEMIS serves to prove that it is
possible, with low-cost equipment, to counter the threat posed by commercial
drones,”
said Edison Cristofani, Radar and Signal
Processing Engineer at the Agency.
In particular, the system uses
software-defined radios and virtual instrumentation, which Cristofani said is
“a game changer.”
"These tools made possible fast
prototyping – implementing changes or updates in a matter of hours,” Cristofani
said. “They provided us with a great degree of flexibility.”
ARTEMIS was sponsored by the NATO HQ C3
Board Navigation and Identification Programme of Work. It belongs to a wider
family of sensors designed and built by NCI Agency in the past decade.
The global community’s use of sUASs, or
drones, is rapidly growing.
Present-day efforts to counter insurgent
drone capabilities are now a global issue of increasing concern for all
military, governmental, and security force personnel and infrastructure.
“The use of drones is expanding. So are
the threats and vulnerabilities caused by malicious users of these systems,
hence the importance of capabilities such as ARTEMIS,” said Jean-Philippe
Saulay, Staff Officer in NATO’s Defence Investment Division. “The fact that
ARTEMIS is based on the rapid and flexible reengineering of existing tools and
applications is an additional bonus.”
Terrorist groups have recently
demonstrated abilities to remotely carry and employ payloads ranging from
live-feed cameras to Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) via drones.
Due to easy access, low cost and lack of
regulations regarding ownership and employment, protection against drones has
become an imperative.
“The really cool thing of this work is
that it’s all done in-house inside the Agency,” said Principal Scientist René
van der Heiden, Project Manager of the work. “And I say ‘in-house’ but much of
it was done in attics and gardens during the recent COVID-19 lockdown.”
The Agency developed the prototype
in-house to help the Agency continue to remain a ‘smart buyer’.
"We did this so we can better
understand the ‘state of the art’ in drone
detection/identification/localisation,” Van der Heiden said. “Once we start
buying equipment from industry we know what is technically possible, we know
what is available and we are able to separate the scientific truth from
fiction.”
When this work is done by NATO, another
added benefit is that it then becomes available to all of the Nations.
"All of the Nations practically can have
access to this information and that can help their own research establishments
or their own industries to develop suitable systems,” Van der Heiden said.
Work on this project will continue.
“This system will give us very good
opportunities also to cooperate with other Nations,” Fois said.
Other agencies and Nations have
prototype systems that are likely complementary to this one.
“The work of NATO on countering the
threat posed by small drones is benefitting from these developments. As the
threat is rapidly evolving, so the countermeasures shall be innovative and
merge different domains: from classical radio frequency and signal processing
techniques, to sensor fusion and machine learning. This prototype opens new
avenues for research, development and finally deployment,”
said Dr Claudio Palestini, Officer in
NATO’s Emerging Security Challenges Division.
Source: Press
Release
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