Anchored Counter-UAV Net Deployment for Large Airspace Protection
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing threat of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) posing risks due to their speed, maneuverability, and ability to carry payloads, including explosives, poses a challenge in protecting large airspaces effectively, as existing countermeasures are costly and complex to implement.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising counter-attack UAVs tethered to a structure via an aerial vehicle capture countermeasure, such as a net, which is deployed to neutralize target UAVs by detecting their position using a detection system and coordinating the flight of multiple UAVs to entangle or capture them.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If existing countermeasures are used to protect large airspaces, then security coverage is improved, but cost and system complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the airspace protection function into multiple independent counter-attack UAVs that can operate autonomously. Each UAV is equipped with its own detection sensors and flight control system, allowing the system to cover large airspaces by deploying multiple modular units rather than relying on a single complex centralized system.
Solution Approach 2:
Each counter-attack UAV contains integrated detection sensors and autonomous flight control capabilities, enabling the units to detect target UAVs and execute countermeasures independently without requiring complex external control infrastructure. This self-sufficient design reduces overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive security coverage.
2Reliability
If countermeasures are deployed to neutralize fast-moving target UAVs, then response effectiveness is improved, but deployment time must be minimized
Solution Approach 1:
The counter-attack UAVs are pre-positioned within the protected airspace before any threat emerges. Detection sensors continuously monitor the environment, and the autonomous flight control systems are ready to execute countermeasures immediately upon detecting a target UAV, eliminating deployment delays that would occur with reactive systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated detection sensors provide real-time feedback about target UAV positions and movements to the autonomous flight control systems. This continuous feedback loop enables the counter-attack UAVs to track and respond to fast-moving targets dynamically, maintaining response effectiveness while minimizing the time from detection to neutralization.
3Reliability
If multiple counter-attack UAVs are coordinated to capture target UAVs, then capture effectiveness is improved, but coordination complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple counter-attack UAVs are merged into a coordinated swarm that operates as a unified system. The autonomous flight control systems of individual UAVs communicate and synchronize their actions to collectively capture target UAVs, achieving enhanced capture effectiveness through combined effort while maintaining individual unit autonomy to avoid excessive coordination complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A system for neutralization of a target aerial vehicle comprises a plurality of counter-attack unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and an aerial vehicle detection system comprising at least one detection sensor operable to detect the target aerial vehicle in flight. The system also comprises an aerial vehicle capture countermeasure in the form of a net tethering the plurality of counter-attack UAVs to one another. The counter-attack UAV(s) are operable to capture and neutralize the target aerial vehicle with the net. The system can comprise at least one net storage device associated with a structure and configured to store at least a portion of the net when in a stowed position, and to facilitate deployment of the net when moved to a deployed position via coordinated flight of the plurality of counter-attack UAVs based on the detected target aerial vehicle.