Rescue Drone Autonomous Launch Triggered by Mobile Device
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current rescue systems lack an efficient method to autonomously initiate and execute rescue operations for individuals lost in remote or hazardous areas, such as hiking, skiing, or boating, without relying on external assistance.
Innovation Solution
A drone-based system equipped with sensors, GPS, and communication devices that can autonomously detect emergency situations, record messages, and navigate to emergency response authorities, providing critical location and situation information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional rescue systems are used, then external assistance is required to initiate rescue operations, but this increases response time and reduces rescue efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The lost individual uses their own mobile device to trigger the rescue operation by sending a text message, eliminating the need for external detection or assistance to initiate the rescue. The system serves itself by allowing the victim to directly activate the rescue sequence.
Solution Approach 2:
The drone is pre-positioned at the individual's location before the emergency occurs, and the trigger mechanism is pre-configured in the mobile device. When the emergency happens, the pre-positioned drone receives the trigger signal and immediately launches, eliminating setup time during the crisis.
2Device complexity
If manual rescue initiation is used, then external personnel must detect and respond to emergencies, but this increases complexity of the rescue system
Solution Approach 1:
The detection and initiation functions are extracted from the complex external rescue system and placed into the simple mobile device carried by the individual. The mobile device's existing text messaging capability is used as the trigger mechanism, removing the need for complex emergency buttons or interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile device serves multiple functions: it acts as the emergency trigger, communicates with the drone, and potentially provides location data. This universal use of an existing common device reduces the need for specialized equipment and simplifies the overall system.
3Extent of automation
If drone launch is delayed until external detection, then automated response is reduced, but this increases loss of time
Solution Approach 1:
The drone system automates the rescue response by automatically receiving the trigger signal, determining its own launch parameters, and executing the launch sequence without human intervention. The entire process from trigger to flight is self-contained and automated.
Solution Approach 2:
The system establishes automatic feedback loops where the mobile device sends the trigger signal and receives confirmation, the drone receives the signal and autonomously executes launch, and location data is continuously transmitted. This automated feedback mechanism eliminates manual intervention delays.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method for optimizing a rescue operation of an individual. The method comprises maintaining, by an individual engaged in an activity, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) associated with and in proximity to the individual. For storage at the UAV, the individual records at a recording device a message. A sensor device is configured to detect a situation requiring a need to rescue the individual at a current location, and generates a trigger signal in response to a detection. In response to the receipt of the trigger signal, a current GPS location of the individual is recorded and a launching of the UAV to traverse a flight-path to a destination location. At or before arriving at the destination location, the UAV contemporaneously provides the stored recorded message and current GPS location of the individual to an emergency response authority to inform of the individual's situation and location.