Drone Take-down Possibilities

Signal Jamming

- The article spoke about the secret service using signal jammers to either hack, send off course, or cause rogue drones to crash. Detecting the signals that a drone emits can also allow the drone to be tracked.

 - Signal Jammer

- Unknown due to it being illegal for civilians to purchase or use signal jammers.

 - Signal jamming would seem to be a more accurate means of interception. Focusing on the signals allows for tracking and hacking as well.

-  Not available for civilian use, therefore the effectiveness is unknown. Could easily interfere with other wi-fi or Bluetooth signals.

 - http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/03/10/secret-service-testing-ways-to-intercept-rogue-drones-with-late-night-flights/

- It would be very interesting to be able to work with signal jamming for drone interception, but that’s not possible.

Interception Drone

- It’s an automated drone that can visually detect any drone within range, will fly directly above the enemy drone and dangle wire into one of the enemy drone’s rotors, causing it to crash.

 - Rapere Drone

- “It won't be cheap like a DJI type drone. It will be priced as a professional tool - we don't want this to become a toy people can use to disrupt legitimate drone use.”

- Two minute maximum takedown time.

Autonomous, so there could be a lot of them without any operators. Camera pointing in every direction, which means immediate detection.

- This is just an idea at this point. The limited availability (only for professional use).

- http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/aerial-robots/rapere-intercept-drone

- http://rapere.io/

- This sounds too simple to be interesting.

Hacker Drone

- A parrot AR drone equipped with a Raspberry Pi circuit board, a small battery, and two wireless transmitters. It seeks out the wireless signals of nearby parrot drones, and commandeers the control of the drone.

- Modified Parrot Drone - Approximately $110, not including the parrot drone.

- The ability to not only stop enemy drones, but control them as well.

- Requires assembly. Only works on Parrot drones (as I know of).

- http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/flying-hacker-contraption-hunts-other-drones-turns-them-into-zombies/

- https://github.com/samyk/skyjack

Net Gun

- It’s a Net gun. It’s a pressurized device that fires a net. - Net Gun

- $697

- Mobility, the net gun is about the size of a flashlight with a large head. Will not damage the drone. 45 foot range. Nets are reusable and very durable. Lightweight and mobile.

- Very costly. Requires human skill for accurate usage. Accuracy depends on user.

 - http://www.thenetgunstore.com/shop/

- If a cheap option is available, this would be interesting to experiment with, either attaching to a drone or a vex robot.