GPS Spoofing on UAV: A Survey

With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical System (CPS), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are deployed in various implementations which improve the performance of the IoT and reduce labor consumption significantly. As the core of UAV, Global Positioning System (GPS) is essential to provide the navigation information for UAVs to finish missions. GPS receives satellite signals and calculated localization so UAVs can recognize their positions. However, malicious attackers leverage the mechanism to generate forged GPS signals that can spoof UAV that has wrong positions. The wrong positions can lead to missions' failure and threaten public safety and private security. In this paper, we investigated the overview of GPS spoofing and explored the development of GPS spoofing on UAVs. This work can provide researchers with state-of-the-art GPS spoofing development on UAVs and inspiration for new directions in this field.