SBIR-STTR Award

This project proposes a software solution that enables a swarm of cooperating aerial vehicles to perform surveillance of unknown hostile environments during GPS denial. Cooperative exploration of adversarial environments poses significant challenges: (i) the vehicles’ motion can be tracked, leading to the vehicle being destroyed or captured, (ii) GPS can be jammed or spoofed, or (iii) communications can be detected. The proposed solution will address these challenges by: (i) minimizing successful attacks by generating unpredictable trajectories that are tuned to possible attacks in the area, (ii) enabling relative localization in GPS denial, and (iii) minimizing communication events

Global Positioning System (GPS) signal jamming has become a prevalent threat to the safety of all aircraft. The proposed solution provides accurate and reliable position, navigation, and timing (PNT) during GPS L1/L2 jamming utilizing existing equipment already present on aircraft. Thus, the solution avoids mounting new hardware onto aircraft, therefore avoiding costly new equipment, lengthy approvals, and labor hours. The objective of this program is to reduce transition risk by build a prototype, evaluate it with extensive flight tests, and deliver the prototype to the end-customer for evaluation.