A hardware solution to overcome the bandwidth limitation of drone jamming platforms

Drone jamming platforms are faced with a significant constraint on bandwidth limitation compared to the broadband spectrum used by remote control radio links in view of implementing the advanced techniques of spread spectrum on these devices. In this work, we propose a hardware solution to overcome the bandwidth limitation of drone jamming platforms by using the dual AD9361 transceiver integrated on the AD-FMCOMMS5-EBZ radio prototyping platform. The hyperchaotic generator of random digital signals and the custom control architecture have been implemented on the ZC706 FPGA development board. A versatile real time chaotic signals generation IP have been developed and integrated on the FMCOMMS5-EBZ HDL reference design considering timing constraints related to the AD9361 data exchange and the AXI-LITE bus interface. The experimental results showed a coverage capacity of more than 100 MHz of bandwidth, which made it possible to guarantee an integral coverage of the WIFI band and consequently to neutralize any potential threat evolving on this band.