Concealed Payload Delivery Mechanism for Remote Hostile Targets
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies face challenges in remotely deploying payloads to hostile targets while ensuring concealment during travel and safe, covert deployment, particularly in environments where human intervention is unsafe.
Innovation Solution
A remotely controllable apparatus with a hollow body, gravity-stable frame, rotatable wheels, and a payload delivery mechanism (PDM) that can conceal the payload during motion and externally deploy it when needed, using a battery-powered motor, counterweights for stability, and a controller for remote operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a payload is deployed to a hostile target, then intelligence and surveillance data can be obtained, but safety risks increase for human operators
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an autonomous robotic platform as an intermediary between the operator and the hostile target. The robot carries and deploys payloads remotely, eliminating direct human exposure to dangerous environments while maintaining operational control through wireless communication and automated navigation systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The robotic platform performs self-navigation and self-deployment functions, autonomously moving to target locations and deploying payloads without continuous human intervention. This self-service capability reduces safety risks by minimizing the need for human operators to be near hostile targets while maintaining mission effectiveness.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the payload delivery mechanism is exposed during travel, then deployment capability is available, but concealment is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The payload delivery mechanism is nested within the hollow body of the robotic platform. The PDM can be concealed inside the body during travel and deployment phases, then extended or opened only when needed at the target location. This nesting approach maintains concealment during transit while preserving full deployment capability when required.
Solution Approach 2:
The payload delivery mechanism transitions between concealed and deployed states dynamically based on mission requirements. The system remains compact and concealed during travel, then transforms to an extended or opened configuration for payload deployment, and can return to concealed state afterward. This dynamic transformation resolves the contradiction between maintaining concealment and providing deployment capability.
3Reliability
If the apparatus is remotely controllable, then operator safety is improved, but control precision may be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The robotic platform incorporates feedback systems including sensors, cameras, and communication modules that provide real-time information to the remote operator. This feedback loop enables the operator to see and control the robot's movements and payload deployment with high precision despite the physical distance, maintaining ease of operation while ensuring operator safety through remote control.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables safe, covert, and efficient deployment of payloads to hostile targets, providing intelligence and surveillance data without human intervention, while maintaining a suitable appearance for covert missions.
Implementation Method 1
at least one counterweight joined to the frame below the longitudinal axis, whereby the at least one counterweight is adapted to keep the frame gravity stable
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus for deploying a payload to a hostile target. The payload may be separable from the apparatus or may be internal to the apparatus. The apparatus has two outboard drive wheels flanking a hollow body. A payload delivery mechanism is disposed on a frame inside and concealed by the hollow body. The payload delivery mechanism has a first, retracted position inside the hollow body and extends through a port to a second position to deliver a payload to a hostile target. The payload may be separable from the apparatus or may be internal to the apparatus. If the payload is internal to the apparatus, upon attachment to a hostile target the payload delivery mechanism may retract to be less visually conspicuous.