RFUAV: A Benchmark Dataset for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection and Identification

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Main Authors: Shi, Rui, Yu, Xiaodong, Wang, Shengming, Zhang, Yijia, Xu, Lu, Pan, Peng, Ma, Chunlai
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author Shi, Rui
Yu, Xiaodong
Wang, Shengming
Zhang, Yijia
Xu, Lu
Pan, Peng
Ma, Chunlai
author_facet Shi, Rui
Yu, Xiaodong
Wang, Shengming
Zhang, Yijia
Xu, Lu
Pan, Peng
Ma, Chunlai
contents In this paper, we propose RFUAV as a new benchmark dataset for radio-frequency based (RF-based) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) identification and address the following challenges: Firstly, many existing datasets feature a restricted variety of drone types and insufficient volumes of raw data, which fail to meet the demands of practical applications. Secondly, existing datasets often lack raw data covering a broad range of signal-to-noise ratios (SNR), or do not provide tools for transforming raw data to different SNR levels. This limitation undermines the validity of model training and evaluation. Lastly, many existing datasets do not offer open-access evaluation tools, leading to a lack of unified evaluation standards in current research within this field. RFUAV comprises approximately 1.3 TB of raw frequency data collected from 37 distinct UAVs using the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) device in real-world environments. Through in-depth analysis of the RF data in RFUAV, we define a drone feature sequence called RF drone fingerprint, which aids in distinguishing drone signals. In addition to the dataset, RFUAV provides a baseline preprocessing method and model evaluation tools. Rigorous experiments demonstrate that these preprocessing methods achieve state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance using the provided evaluation tools. The RFUAV dataset and baseline implementation are publicly available at https://github.com/kitoweeknd/RFUAV/.
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spellingShingle RFUAV: A Benchmark Dataset for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection and Identification
Shi, Rui
Yu, Xiaodong
Wang, Shengming
Zhang, Yijia
Xu, Lu
Pan, Peng
Ma, Chunlai
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
In this paper, we propose RFUAV as a new benchmark dataset for radio-frequency based (RF-based) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) identification and address the following challenges: Firstly, many existing datasets feature a restricted variety of drone types and insufficient volumes of raw data, which fail to meet the demands of practical applications. Secondly, existing datasets often lack raw data covering a broad range of signal-to-noise ratios (SNR), or do not provide tools for transforming raw data to different SNR levels. This limitation undermines the validity of model training and evaluation. Lastly, many existing datasets do not offer open-access evaluation tools, leading to a lack of unified evaluation standards in current research within this field. RFUAV comprises approximately 1.3 TB of raw frequency data collected from 37 distinct UAVs using the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) device in real-world environments. Through in-depth analysis of the RF data in RFUAV, we define a drone feature sequence called RF drone fingerprint, which aids in distinguishing drone signals. In addition to the dataset, RFUAV provides a baseline preprocessing method and model evaluation tools. Rigorous experiments demonstrate that these preprocessing methods achieve state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance using the provided evaluation tools. The RFUAV dataset and baseline implementation are publicly available at https://github.com/kitoweeknd/RFUAV/.
title RFUAV: A Benchmark Dataset for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection and Identification
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09033