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From: Lance (UAV Research and Ideas)
Date: 10 Aug 2003
Time: 03:40:32
Remote Name: 66.82.48.1
UAV - Swarm and Flanking Maneuvers Using Wireless Sensor Networks. ------ There has been some extremely useful innovations and inventions which has propelled the wireless sensor network technology. David Culler a computer scientist at Berkeley, has come up with one of the greatest achievements in low-power wireless sensor networks. Now some of the stupid crap they are wasting this technology is worthless, but the system is absolutely brilliant. And what an opportunity for UAVs. The system can give UAV swarms the same advantage as birds using their beaks to transfer ELF to the flock. This technology can assist in my idea of weather control and data collection for weather prediction, it can be used on road signs for traffic data and control, it can assist with my idea of logistical real time flow of equipment for troop and equipment movement. It can assist us in so many things and is absolutely perfect for swarms of UAVs for return or non-return missions. Mr Pister has developed millimeter size sensing and communication devices. And such a set of sensors on the fuselages of UAVs could allow you to fly them in swarms together by only controlling one. Then allow the swarm to separate into a line and get into a line and then turn off he communication of the one unit that you control if you want silent running for stealth. Or you can allow the UAV you are controlling stay near the command module or with in frequency range and it controls the entire system by sending a message to the nearest unit, which relays that to the next unit and so on to the lead aircraft. The unit in the back is the control module. The UAVs should have the capacity to send a message past two UAVs to the third UAV from them. So therefore if you lose one or two in-between the mission goes on. You could have a line of UAVs that was a hundred or more long. Or to protect the formation and keep energy requirments low, right now they might use a AA Battery, but could run fromt he energy of the propulsion syste, Ion-Lithium electric UAV power source or small propeller developing minimal amounts of power using relative wind. These units could fly in a zig zag formation moving laterally to cut the distance down from the 1-3 or 1-4 unit pattern, in 1-4 parallel formation. We are talking about literally capturing all the data on an entire country with one swarm fly over at fairly low altitudes such as 4000-5000 agl or even less for maximum information. Or for data concerning weather or any number of sources. All this using a TinyOS (operating system which weighs very little) meaning that you could have UAVs which were less than six inches long if you wanted and a payload of ounces, 1-2 pound payload would be over-kill for such a system. These systems even this small contain a few kilobytes of code. You could make those devices that Tom Clancy talked about in one of his books where little dragon fly size units flew in late at night and landed on the departure end of a run way and on take off of your enemies jet interceptors the little Mini- UAVs simply fly up an get sucked into the engines of the aircraft and into the fan blades and take out the engines with small charges. The aircraft has nowhere to land and no way to turn around on such short notice. On the approach end the aircraft on landing would crash on the runway making the runway unusable thus you save the jet fighters for later capture and shut down the airport and thus no threat. Using these small monitoring devices that are called motes, you can communicate easily by relay and remote. David Culler has found a way to leave the motes off and then still send data when needed and still better a way to allow the data to hop through the network. You can actually have thousands of UAVs flying in a line or parallel. There are so many things that I have said were problems that this can help achieve solutions for. Ice on Bridges and relaying deer crossing in front of drivers by warning a few 100 yards in advance by sending a signal, which would chirp on your car radio. But for now the UAV use of this technology is way too good to pass up. We must immediately call Intel and talk with David about this, since he is on leave from Berkeley right now and working in one of their “Lablets” research teams. If anyone working with UAVs for our Military or is manufacturer of UAVs working on government contracts and wants more information on my concept and how I envision these swarms or flight formations working email me: Lance@carwashguys.com
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