Conceptual study of an Anti-Drone Drone through the coupling of design process and interception strategy simulations

摘要

In order to face safety, security and privacy issues raised by small drones flying illegaly at very low level, some ground-based solutions have been developed to detect, analyze and potentially neutralize such a threat. If these solutions, coming with a dissuasive regulation, will slow down incidents in the short term, it is likely that new threats will soon appear with highly automated aircraft potentially operating in swarms. In order to react to this moving threat, some of the defense functions could be executed by small drones called anti-drone drones (ADD). The design of these aircraft must take into account the performances of targets, the needed payload and the mission requirements. This paper presents a methodology aiming at implementing and assessing the pre-design of such aircraft. This includes interception strategies coupled with a design process. This methodology is applied to a scenario of nuclear power plant protection and this paper presents a preliminary vehicle design and first results of the simulation of the interception of a malevolent drone.