Drone Net-Gun Threat Sound to Prevent Bird Misidentification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional drone-hunting systems often falsely recognize birds as targets due to their presence around suspicious flying objects, leading to potential capture of non-threatening birds.
Innovation Solution
Incorporation of a sound generating mechanism in the hunting drone that emits a threatening sound upon firing the net gun, which repels birds and prevents false recognition, allowing the drone to accurately capture the intended target.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a hunting drone approaches a detected target to capture it, then the capture capability is improved, but birds flying around the target may be falsely recognized and captured
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies preliminary anti-action by emitting threatening sounds (such as predator calls or loud noises) from the hunting drone before attempting to capture the target. This preemptive measure drives birds away from the target area, preventing them from being falsely recognized and captured, while allowing the hunting drone to proceed with capturing the actual target without interference
Solution Approach 2:
The threatening sound emission acts as an intermediary mechanism between the hunting drone and the birds. This intermediary element (sound emission) mediates the interaction by repelling birds without requiring direct physical contact or capture attempts, thus resolving the conflict between capturing the target and avoiding false capture of birds
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Effectively deters birds from the target area, preventing them from being captured and ensuring the system focuses on the intended suspicious flying object, such as an illegal drone, thereby improving the accuracy of the capture process.
Implementation Method 1
a sound generating mechanism configured to generate a sound when the net gun fires
Data Source
AI summary
According to an embodiment, a hunting drone includes a hunting mechanism, a net gun, a flying mechanism, and a control unit. The hunting mechanism captures a target. The net gun generates a sound at the time of firing a hunting net. After approaching the target to a predetermined distance, the hunting drone captures the target using the hunting mechanism, while avoiding false recognition of the target by using the sound generated at the time of firing the net gun as a threatening sound to repel a wrong target such as a bird.