Research project

BAE UAV Swarm Challenge 2020

Project overview

The ability to source affordable and highly capable small unmanned air vehicles raises the threat of
swarming UAVs carrying IED-like payloads, capable of delivering significant damage.
• This is compounded by many organisations developing and deploying commercial last mile delivery solutions.
• There is a need to counter such systems in a robust and affordable manner, which can reliably scale to deal with large and sustained swarm attacks.
• Solutions have been created by industry, such as the “jamming guns” and single “drone catchers” fall short of what would be required to defend against a large automated drone swarm.

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Stephen Prior CEng, MIMechE

Readership in Unmanned Air Vehicles

Research interests

  • VTOL Aeronautics
  • Autonomous Uncrewed Systems
  • Aerial Robotics
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Research outputs