Drone Coordination System for Weather Emergency Landing
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Solution Overview
Problem
As the number of drones in operation increases, adverse weather conditions such as strong cross winds, extreme temperatures, and high waves pose a significant threat to their safety, necessitating a system to safely coordinate their flight paths and prevent damage by guiding them to emergency landing sites before encountering hazardous conditions.
Innovation Solution
A system that detects adverse weather conditions and coordinates drones by transmitting requests for them to return to predetermined emergency landing sites, selecting sites based on the drone's location and priority values, using a computing device equipped with a processor, memory, and communication interfaces to manage flight paths and ensure safe landing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the number of drones in operation is increased, then productivity is improved, but the risk of damage from adverse weather conditions increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by detecting adverse weather conditions before they affect the drones and proactively transmitting emergency landing instructions to all drones in the region. This advance warning allows drones to return to safe locations before encountering hazardous conditions, preventing damage while maintaining high operational numbers.
2Reliability
If emergency landing sites are assigned based on drone location and priority values, then reliability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by assigning different priority values to different drones based on their specific characteristics and operational status. Each drone receives customized emergency landing instructions tailored to its location and priority level, optimizing safety outcomes. The coordination system manages this complexity through automated algorithms that process drone data and generate appropriate landing assignments.
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AI summary
A system for drone coordination includes logic to detect an adverse weather condition and detect a plurality of drones operating in a region to be affected by the adverse weather condition. The logic can also transmit a request to the plurality of drones, wherein the request indicates that each of the plurality of drones is to return to an emergency landing site to be selected from a set of predetermined emergency landing sites. The emergency landing site for each drone can be based in part on the location of the drone at the time of transmittal of the request.