Remote-Controlled Aeronautical Ordnance With Rotor-Guided Targeting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional explosive weapons lack the ability to control trajectory and destination after launch, often resulting in collateral damage to innocent people, as they cannot be steered or recalled once airborne.
Innovation Solution
A remotely controllable aeronautical ordnance system that includes a tubular body with rotating blades for propulsion, an imaging device for real-time target visualization, and a remote control device for navigating the ordnance to a specific destination, allowing for controlled descent and detonation without impact.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If conventional explosive weapons are launched to attack an enemy, then the attack capability is improved, but the ability to control trajectory and avoid collateral damage is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces conventional unguided mechanical projectile delivery with a remotely controllable aerial vehicle system. The vehicle uses rotors for propulsion and hovering, replacing traditional ballistic trajectories with controlled flight paths. This allows real-time steering and position adjustment to avoid collateral damage while maintaining attack capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates imaging devices that provide real-time visual feedback to the remote operator. This feedback loop enables the operator to observe the vehicle's position, adjust the trajectory, and ensure precise delivery to the intended target, thereby avoiding collateral damage while maintaining ease of operation.
2Ease of operation
If the ordnance is made light and compact for portability, then the ease of carrying is improved, but the propulsion power and altitude capability are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs multiple small rotors distributed around the vehicle body instead of a single large propulsion system. This segmentation allows the vehicle to achieve sufficient total thrust for altitude gain while keeping each individual rotor compact and lightweight, maintaining overall portability. The distributed rotor configuration also provides redundancy and improved control authority.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables precise delivery of explosive payloads with reduced collateral damage by allowing real-time steering and controlled descent, minimizing harm to non-combatants and enhancing operational safety.
Implementation Method 1
a plurality of blades connected to the body at or near the first end portion blades for rotation about the body under powered operation to impart thrust and bring the ordnance to a first altitude above a target position
Implementation Method 2
blades for rotation about the body under powered operation to impart thrust
Implementation Method 3
an imaging device mounted along the second end portion to generate frames of image data representative of a view of a ground plane while the ordnance is airborne, where the imaging device acquires infrared or visible light images
Implementation Method 4
imaging device acquires infrared or visible light images
Implementation Method 5
a user controllable remote control device... to cause the ordnance to descend toward the target position
Data Source
AI summary
An ordnance for air-borne delivery to a target under remotely controlled in-flight navigation. In one embodiment, self-powered aerial ordnance includes upper and lower cases. A plurality of co-axial, deployable blades is powered by a motor positioned in the upper case. When deployed, the blades are rotatable about the upper case to impart thrust and bring the vehicle to a first altitude above a target position. An explosive material and a camera are positioned in a lower case which is attached to the upper case. The camera generates a view along the ground plane and above the target when the ordinance is in flight. When the vehicle is deployed it is remotely controllable to deliver the vehicle to the target to detonate the explosive at the target. The ordnance may drop directly on a target as a bomb does.