Radio frequency spoofing system to take over law-breaking drones

Drones have been used by criminals to smuggle cell phones and drugs into prisons. They also may cause accidents in airports and other heavy flight traffic zones, so it is clear that it is interesting to take control of drones in some specific situations. This work is part of a project intended to develop a system (hardware and software) to take control of the law-breaking drones. This system uses an embedded Linux board communicating via SPI with a radio IC to emulate controllers signal, admitting several flight control parameters: raw, pitch, yaw and roll. In addition, this design must follow technical requirements such as power and speed to overcome primary controllers signal. Therefore, we have shown that a system composed by a Beaglebone Black and a GFSK RF transceiver can be used to take control of radio controlled drones.