Geofenced autonomous aquatic drone
OwnerCraig D. Allmendingerinventor
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Abstract
A geofenced autonomous aquatic drone for repelling sharks from a shoreline. The drone employs a buoyant housing resembling a portion of a predator such as an orca whale. A battery positioned within the drone is recharged through a floating inductive charging station. A propulsion system controlled a microprocessor receives location information via DGPS for providing a geofence around an area to be patrolled. A sonar device is constructed and arranged to detect sharks. The drone travels within the geofence area, monitored by the DGPS receiver and a solution of shark repellant is dispensed.
Claims6
An autonomous aquatic drone comprising:
- a buoyant housing resembling at least a portion of a shark predator selected from the group of consisting of an orca whale, a sperm whale or a dolphin;
- a battery positioned within said housing, said battery recharged through inductive charging;
- a microprocessor electrically coupled to said battery;
- a propulsion system secured to said housing and operatively associated with said microprocessor;
- a sonar device constructed and arranged to detect sharks;
- a solution of shark repellant admixed by said propulsion system;
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- a DGPS receiver coupled to said microprocessor;
- wherein said microprocessor is programmed to control said propulsion system for directing said buoyant housing to travel within a geofence area coordinated by said DGPS receiver.
An autonomous aquatic drone comprising:
- a buoyant housing resembling at least a portion of a shark predator selected from the group of consisting of an orca whale, a sperm whale or a dolphin;
- a battery positioned within said housing, said battery recharged through inductive charging;
- a microprocessor positioned within said housing and electrically coupled to said battery;
- a water jet propulsion system secured to said housing and operatively associated with said microprocessor;
- a sonar device constructed and arranged to detect sharks
- a DGPS receiver coupled to said microprocessor;
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- a solution of shark repellant attached to said buoyant housing for admixing through said water jet propulsion system, said solution is drawn from a storage tank solution consisting of orca whale pheromones;
- wherein said microprocessor is programmed to control said water jet propulsion system for directing said buoyant housing to travel within a geofence area coordinate by said DGPS receiver while said solution of shark repellant is dispensed or toward a shark detected by said sonar device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.