Counter drone system
AssigneeAnduril Industries, Inc.
InventorsJason Levin, Palmer F. Luckey, Julian Hammerstein, Joseph Chen
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Abstract
The system comprises a plurality of sensor systems, a counter drone, and a processor. A sensor system of the plurality of sensor systems comprises one or more sensors that are connected to a network. The counter drone is connected to the network. The processor is configured to receive an indication of a potential target from the plurality of sensor systems; generate a fused data set for the potential target, determine whether the potential target comprises the threat drone based at least in part on the fused data set; and in response to determining that the potential target comprises the threat drone, provide counter drone instructions to the counter drone.
Claims19
A system for countering a threat drone, comprising:
- a plurality of sensor systems, wherein a sensor system of the plurality of sensor systems comprises one or more sensors that are connected to a network;
- a counter drone, wherein the counter drone is connected to the network;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- receive an indication of a potential target from the plurality of sensor systems;
- generate a fused data set of the potential target, wherein the fused data set comprises the indication of the potential target and one or more of:
- another indication of the potential target, a raw sensor information, and/or a derived sensor information, wherein generating the fused data set comprises determining that the one or more of the another indication of the potential target, the raw sensor information, and/or the derived sensor information are all associated with the potential target and combining the one or more of the another indication of the potential target, the raw sensor information, and/or the derived sensor information;
- determine that the potential target comprises the threat drone based at least in part on the fused data set, comprising:
- determine that a characteristic of the potential target is within a range, is within a geofenced area, or has a trajectory that will take it within a radius of a geofenced area;
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- in response to determining that the potential target comprises the threat drone, provide counter drone instructions to the counter drone, comprising:
- determine a payload type based on a strategy to address the threat drone;
- determine counter drone candidates based on the payload type;
- determine flight paths of the counter drone candidates;
- rank probabilities of threat drone interception of the counter drone candidates based on the determined flight paths;
- select intercept drones of the counter drone candidates based on the ranked probabilities;
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- provide the counter drone instructions to the selected intercept drones.
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