AU2020102992A4

AU2020102992A4 - A system and method for disaster management using flying ad- hoc network

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Publication number: AU2020102992A4
Application number: AU2020102992A
Authority: AU
Inventors: Rakesh Kumar; Ankur Pandey; Jaideep Patel; Aditi Purohit; Kratika Sharma; Amit Shrivastava; Ritu Shrivastava
Original assignee: Kumar Rakesh Dr; Patel Jaideep Dr; Purohit Aditi Ms; Sharma Kratika Ms; Shrivastava Amit Dr; Shrivastava Ritu Dr
Current assignee: Kumar Rakesh Dr; Patel Jaideep Dr; Purohit Aditi Ms; Sharma Kratika Ms; Shrivastava Amit Dr; Shrivastava Ritu Dr
Priority date: 2020-10-24
Filing date: 2020-10-24
Publication date: 2021-03-11
Anticipated expiration: 2028-10-24

Abstract

A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT USING FLYING AD-HOC NETWORK The invention provides an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) cluster combat system 5 utilizing an ad-hoc network data chain. The UAV cluster combat system consists of subsystems, including a wireless ad-hoc network data chain, an optoelectronic pod, an UAV cluster, a ground command and control centre and the like. The UAV cluster can independently construct an ad-hoc network data chain according to battlefield environment and cluster distribution situation, transmits information collected by the 10 optoelectronic pod (including a laser range finger, a GPS/BD receiver, a high definition CMOS camera and the like) to other UAV in the UAV cluster and the ground command and control centre through the ad-hoc network data chain. Figure 1 shall be reference figure. 15 - 16- Application Number: Page 1 of 2 1/1 (41 Figure 1 3 -- 2 Figure 2 1

Description

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INNOVATION PATENT APPLICATION AUSTRALIA PATENT OFFICE

1. TITLE OF THE INVENTION

A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT USING FLYING AD HOCNETWORK

2. APPLICANTS (S)

NAME NATION- ADDRESS ALITY

Dr. Ritu Shrivastava IN Professor & Head, Department of CSE, SIRT Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

Ankur Pandey IN Assistant Professor Department of CSE, SIRT Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

Dr. Amit Shrivastava IN Professor Department of CSE, SIRT Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

Dr. Jaideep Patel IN Associate Professor Department of IT, SIRT Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

Dr. Rakesh Kumar IN Associate Professor Department of IT, SIRT Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

Aditi Purohit IN Assistant Professor Department of CSE, SIRT Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

Kratika Sharma IN Assistant Professor, Department of IT, Chaitnya Bharathi institute of technology (CBIT), Gandipet, Hyderabad, Telangana

3. PREAMBLE TO THE DESCRIPTION

COMPLETE SPECIFICATION AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT

The following specification particularly describes the invention and the manner in which it is to be performed

A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT USING FLYING AD-HOC NETWORK FIELD OF INVENTION

[00011 The present invention relates to a communications technology, specifically to a UAV cluster operating system adopting an ad hoc network data link, belonging to the field of wireless communication technology.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0002] Background description includes information that may be useful in understanding the present invention. It is not an admission that any of the information provided herein is prior art or relevant to the presently claimed invention, or that any publication specifically or implicitly referenced is prior art.

[0003] In recent years, the development of modem war has shown a significant trend of unmanned. UAV in modern war has many advantages, the main operational characteristics of low cost, good concealment, fear of casualties and take off simple, support multiple task types. However, a single UAV combat system there are reconnaissance combat range is small, time is short, poor adaptability and easy to be destroyed and other shortcomings. In order to meet the needs of future warfare, unmanned aerial vehicle is from the traditional single auxiliary training, combat support function to the communication relay, battlefield management, fire guidance, damage assessment, early warning, electronic confrontation and other multi-functional direction, especially cluster operations is military The main trend of man-machine, its significant combat effectiveness, low cost, easy to large number of equipment and other advantages make its role in the war more and more prominent, will become the impact of the important and even critical force.

[0004] UAV network technology has become the hot research direction of UAV development in recent years. And the existing UAV cluster combat system rarely, and are using the traditional wireless networking means to communicate. In traditional wireless networking communications, UAVs only communicate with fixed network infrastructures such as ground allegations without communicating with other unmanned aerial vehicles. The existing UAV cluster combat system has the following shortcomings

[0005] First of all, limited by the traditional point-to-point communication, the existing UAV cluster combat system can only be in a single unmanned aerial vehicle within the scope of effective communication range, combat range.

[0006] Second, all UAVs only communicate with the allegations or base stations, with poor flexibility.

[0007] Again, the need for network infrastructure support, which requires advance to the battlefield to establish base stations and other infrastructure, combat difficult.

[00081 Finally, if the network infrastructure is hit by the enemy, the entire UAV communication network will be invalid, poor reliability, can not adapt to the current complex and changeable battlefield environment.

[0009] These defects weaken the combat capability of the UAV cluster and limit the application of the UAV cluster in the modem battlefield, which is an important problem to be solved urgently in the actual operation of the UAV cluster.

[0010] Therefor the present disclosure overcomes the above mentioned problem associated with the traditionally available method or system, any of the above mentioned invention can be used with the presented disclosed technique with or without modification.

[0011] All publications herein are incorporated by reference to the same extent as if each individual publication or patent application were specifically and individually indicated to be incorporated by reference. Where a definition or use of a term in an incorporated reference is inconsistent or contrary to the definition of that term provided herein, the definition of that term provided herein applies and the definition of that term in the reference does not apply.

[0012] In some embodiments, the numbers expressing quantities or dimensions of items, and so forth, used to describe and claim certain embodiments of the invention are to be understood as being modified in some instances by the term "about." Accordingly, in some embodiments, the numerical parameters set forth in the written description and attached claims are approximations that can vary depending upon the desired properties sought to be obtained by a particular embodiment. In some embodiments, the numerical parameters should be construed in light of the number of reported significant digits and by applying ordinary rounding techniques. Notwithstanding that the numerical ranges and parameters setting forth the broad scope of some embodiments of the invention are approximations, the numerical values set forth in the specific examples are reported as precisely as practicable. The numerical values presented in some embodiments of the invention may contain certain errors necessarily resulting from the standard deviation found in their respective testing measurements.

[0013] As used in the description herein and throughout the claims that follow, the meaning of "a," "an," and "the" includes plural reference unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. Also, as used in the description herein, the meaning of "in" includes "in" and "on" unless the context clearly dictates otherwise.

OBJECTS OF INVENTION

[0014] It is an object of the invention is to propose an unmanned aerial vehicle cluster combat system using an ad hoc network data link for the problems existing in the current UAV combat system.

[0015] It is another objective of the invention to provide a UAV combat system that has a large combat range and has a long duration of combat High flexibility, strong adaptability, high reliability, versatility of the characteristics.

[00161 It is another objective of the invention to provide a UAV that can achieve cluster operations and evaluation of integrated operations, to the greatest extent possible to meet the needs of modern battlefield.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

[00171 The technical scheme adopted by the invention is that, a wireless ad hoc network based on wireless ad hoc network data link system, including: wireless ad hoc network data link, photoelectric pod, unmanned aerial vehicle group and ground allegation centre;

[0018] The UAVs are equipped with photoelectric pods on each UAV, which collects battlefield information, measures target location and image information, and transmits it to the ground allegation centre through the wireless ad hoc network data link. The ground allegation centre , And sends control commands through the wireless ad hoc network data link to the unmanned aerial vehicle group to control the operation of the unmanned aerial vehicle group; between the groups in the unmanned aerial vehicle group and between the unmanned aerial vehicles through the wireless ad hoc network Data link to communicate.

[0019] The UAV cluster combat system comprising: the ground allegation centre comprises a terrestrial data station, a console, a computer and a display; the ground allegation centre receives the signal of the unmanned aerial vehicle group through the terrestrial data link station, the computer resolves the video, image and data information, displays it on the display, realizes the monitoring of the target point in real time; sends the control instruction through the console to adjust The view of the photoelectric pod and the flight status of the UAV, which are sent to the unmanned aerial vehicle group via the terrestrial data link station.

[0020] The UAV cluster combat system comprising: the wireless ad hoc network data link comprises a plurality of wireless ad hoc network communication units, each wireless ad hoc network communication unit comprises a main control module, a wireless communication module, a bus module and an interface module; each UAV is provided with A wireless ad hoc network communication unit, the ground allegation centre is also provided with a wireless ad hoc network communication unit;

[0021] The interface module receives the real-time information collected by the photoelectric dunk and the target point position information, and transmits the real time information and the target point position information collected by the main control module to the main control module through the bus module, and through the wireless communication The module sends the data out.

[0022] The communication frequency is between 200MHz and 1GHz, using LORA spread spectrum modulation, and the wireless ad hoc network data link adopts wireless ad hoc network protocol to communicate with each other.

[00231 The frame structure of the wireless ad hoc network protocol includes a beacon frame, a command frame, a newspaper frame, a data frame and a response frame.

[0024] The invention can realize the relay transmission through the UAV network, so that the combat radius of the UAV is no longer limited to the effective communication distance of the single UAV, greatly improving the combat range and the use efficiency of the UAV;

[0025] The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology can be used when the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fails or is destroyed, and the other unmanned aerial vehicles can automatically and quickly react and adjust, re-organize and maintain the data link stable operation. Greatly improve the robustness of the UAV combat system;

[00261 The invention utilizes the photoelectric pod to obtain the information of the target point and the height of the centre, and the information is the key information when the GPS type precision guidance weapon is used. Binding these information to the unmanned aircraft mounted precision-guided bombs can quickly attack the ground sensitive targets, greatly improving the efficiency of UAV combat.

[00271 Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the present invention. As those skilled in the art would realize, the described embodiments may be modified in various different ways, all without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention.

[0028] It is noted that the figures are schematic and not drawn to scale. The relative dimensions and ratios of the parts in the figures have been exaggerated or reduced in size for clarity and convenience in the figures and any dimensions are merely exemplary and not limiting. And the same structure, element or part that appears in more than one figure the same reference numerals are used in different embodiments to indicate corresponding or similar features.

[0029] One should appreciate that although the present disclosure has been explained with respect to a defined set of functional modules, any other module or set of modules can be added/deleted/modified/combined and any such changes in architecture/construction of the proposed system are completely within the scope of the present disclosure. Each module can also be fragmented into one or more functional sub-modules, all of which also completely within the scope of the present disclosure.

[0030] Various objects, features, aspects and advantages of the inventive subject matter will become more apparent from the following detailed description of preferred embodiments, along with the accompanying drawing figures in which like numerals represent like components.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ACCOMPANYING DRAWINGS

[0031] The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further understanding of the present disclosure, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification. The drawings illustrate exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the present disclosure.

[0032] Figure 1, in a preferred embodiment of the invention, is a block diagram of the system configuration of the present invention

[0033] Figure 2 illustrates the various parts, through a block diagram showing the composition of an unmanned aerial vehicle in the present invention.

[0034] Figure 3 is a block diagram showing the composition of the ground allegations in the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0035] In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of embodiments of the present invention. It will be apparent to one skilled in the art that embodiments of the present invention may be practiced without some of these specific details.

[0036] Embodiments of the present invention include various steps, which will be described below. The steps may be performed by hardware components or may be embodied in machine-executable instructions, which may be used to cause a general purpose or special-purpose processor programmed with the instructions to perform the steps. Alternatively, steps may be performed by a combination of hardware, software, and firmware and/or by human operators.

[00371 The following is a detailed description of embodiments of the disclosure depicted in the accompanying drawings. The embodiments are in such detail as to clearly communicate the disclosure. However, the amount of detail offered is not intended to limit the anticipated variations of embodiments; on the contrary, the intention is to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the present disclosure as defined by the appended claims.

[00381 Exemplary embodiments will now be described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which exemplary embodiments are shown. This invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. These embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those of ordinary skill in the art. Moreover, all statements herein reciting embodiments of the invention, as well as specific examples thereof, are intended to encompass both structural and functional equivalents thereof. Additionally, it is intended that such equivalents include both currently known equivalents as well as equivalents developed in the future (i.e., any elements developed that perform the same function, regardless of structure).

[00391 The invention is an unmanned aerial vehicle cluster combat system adopting an ad hoc network data link, including wireless ad hoc network data link, photoelectric pod, unmanned aerial vehicle group and ground allegation centre. Unmanned aerial vehicles can be based on the battlefield environment and cluster distribution, self-built ad hoc network data link, by the photoelectric pod (including laser range finder, GPS receiver and high-definition CMOS camera module) The self organizing data link is sent to other unmanned aerial vehicles and ground allegations in the cluster, under the remote control of the ground allegations centre, to complete the target reconnaissance, bomb attack and post-combat assessment and other actions. The self-organizing data link will be optimized in real time according to the changes in the battlefield environment and will not be destroyed by the damage of a UAV. It greatly expands the combat range and operational flexibility of the UAV cluster to meet the maximum Modern battlefield demand. In addition, the system in the natural disaster relief, urban traffic management, also has a huge application prospects.

[0040] As shown in Fig. 1, the invention provides a UAV cluster combat system based on a wireless ad hoc network data link, which comprises a wireless ad hoc network data chain 1, an optical pod 2, an unmanned aerial vehicle group 3 and a ground allegation centre 4,

[00411 Unmanned aerial vehicle group 3 in each UAV are equipped with photoelectric pod 2, used to collect battlefield information, measurement of target location and image information, and through the wireless ad hoc network data link 1 sent to the ground allegations 4, ground charges The centre 4 generates control commands based on the information returned and sends it to the unmanned aerial vehicle group 3 through the wireless ad hoc network data link 1 to control the operations of the unmanned aerial vehicle group 3; the groups among the unmanned aerial group 3 and the unmanned The machines communicate with each other through the wireless ad hoc network data link 1.

[0042] As shown in Figure 3, the ground allegations include terrestrial data stations (5), consoles (6), computers and displays (7);

[0043] The ground allegation centre receives the signal of the unmanned aerial vehicle group through the terrestrial data link station, the computer resolves the video, image and data information, displays it on the display, realizes the monitoring of the target point in real time; sends the control instruction through the console to adjust The view of the photoelectric pod and the flight status of the UAV, which are sent to the unmanned aerial vehicle group via the terrestrial data link station.

[0044] As shown in Figure 2, the photoelectric pod 2 is mounted on the bottom of the UAV 3 and can be equipped with functional modules such as satellite positioning receivers (8), laser range finder (9) and HD camera (10). The satellite positioning receiver (8) can measure the coordinates of the UAV at the height of the latitude and longitude, combined with the laser rangefinder pitch angle and measured distance from the target point distance can calculate the target point of precision coordinates; high-definition camera for real-time acquisition of target point dynamic information. Laser range finder and high-definition camera perspective can be remotely controlled by the ground allegation centre through the ad hoc network data link.

[0045] The wireless ad hoc network data link 1 hardware consists of wireless ad hoc network communication units distributed in each unmanned aerial vehicle and ground allegation centre, and uses the wireless ad hoc network protocol to network.

The protocol has the functions of fast ad hoc network, real-time network reconstruction and dynamic resource allocation. It is responsible for realizing the information exchange between the members of the UAV cluster and between the UAV and the ground allegation centre. The network is multi-hop and can achieve long distances greater than the single UAV active communication distance communication. When a UAV failure or was destroyed, the rest of the UAV can automatically and quickly react and adjust, re-networking, to maintain data link stability. Each wireless ad hoc network communication unit comprises a main control module, a wireless communication module, a bus module and an interface module;

[00461 The interface module receives the real-time information collected by the photoelectric dunk and the target point position information, and transmits the real time information and the target point position information collected by the main control module to the main control module through the bus module, and through the wireless communication, the module sends the data out.

[00471 Wireless communication between the nodes of the wireless ad hoc network data link, the communication frequency between 200MHz ~1GHz, using LORA spread spectrum modulation, wireless ad hoc network data link using wireless ad hoc network protocol for communication.

[00481 The frame structure of the wireless ad hoc network protocol includes a beacon frame, a command frame, a newspaper frame, a data frame and a response frame.

[0049] The UAV cluster operating system with self-organizing data link consists of four sub-systems: wireless ad hoc data link, photoelectric pod, unmanned aerial vehicle group and ground accusation centre.

[00501 UAV cluster combat system work, mount the photoelectric pod 2 UAV 3 team to cluster to fly to one or more target points over the sky, as shown in Figure 1 in Figure 1 to 1 Target point as an example. Process, the UAV on the wireless transceiver device will be based on the battlefield environment and the distribution of unmanned aerial vehicles to choose the network topology, spontaneously, dynamically composed of wireless ad hoc network data link 1, and according to the battlefield environment and the distribution of unmanned aerial vehicles Change the real-time optimization of the network. After reaching the target point, each UAV through the photoelectric pod 2 in the various functional modules on the battlefield environment and target parameters to observe and measure, and then through the wireless ad hoc network data link 1 to the observed information sent to other unmanned 3 and the ground allegation centre 4, if the UAV from the ground allegation centre 4 is far greater than the effective communication distance of a single wireless transceiver, the use of other unmanned aerial vehicles as a relay, the use of multi-hop way to send information to the ground Allegations centre. The ground control centre 4 analyzes and calculates the obtained data information. By analyzing the data of multiple UAVs comprehensively, the more accurate combat parameters such as target point size, target point coordinates and so on can be calculated. After the ground accusation centre 4 will be the information back to the corresponding unmanned aerial vehicles 3, if the unmanned aircraft with GPS-guided weapons, the UAV can be the target point of the binding to the GPS-type precision guided bombs, and according to ground charges 4 remote control on the target point of the implementation of quantitative strike and precision strike. Throughout the combat process, the UAV can send the detected picture or video information through the HD camera on the photoelectric pod 2, and after the strike is completed, the image information of the target bombardment is sent back so that the ground allegation centre can hit the effect Assessment and the next step in the development of operations. When a UAV in the network fails or is destroyed, the remaining unmanned aerial vehicles in the network can quickly determine the location of the damaged UAVs, and adjust the network itself to form a new adaptive network to maintain the data link Stable work, which shows that the ad hoc network data link does not depend on any UAV node, any damage to the UAV will not affect the normal work of the data link, the system has survivability. The invention uses the unmanned aerial vehicle cluster combat system of the self organizing network to solve the problem that the existing UAV combat system is small in scope, low flexibility and poor reliability, and can adapt to the current complex and changing battlefield environment, Evaluation of integrated operations.

[0051] While the foregoing describes various embodiments of the invention, other and further embodiments of the invention may be devised without departing from the basic scope thereof. The scope of the invention is determined by the claims that follow. The invention is not limited to the described embodiments, versions or examples, which are included to enable a person having ordinary skill in the art to make and use the invention when combined with information and knowledge available to the person having ordinary skill in the art.

Claims

We Claim:

1. A UAV cluster combat system utilizing ad-hoc network data chain (1), said system comprises,

a photoelectric pod (2), unmanned aerial vehicle group (3) and ground allegation centre (3), and a wireless ad hoc network data link, which is characterized in that it comprises a wireless ad hoc network data link (4);

characterized in that,

the unmanned aerial vehicle (3) is equipped with a photoelectric pod (2) for collecting battlefield information, measuring the target point position and image information, and transmitting it to the ground through the wireless ad hoc network data link (1) (4), the ground allegation centre (4) generates control commands according to the information returned, and sends it to the unmanned aerial vehicle group (3) through the wireless ad hoc network data link (1), controls the unmanned aerial vehicle group (3), and between the various UAVs through the wireless ad hoc network data link (1).

2. The UAV cluster based combat system utilizing ad-hoc network data chain as claimed in claim 1, wherein, the ground allegation centre comprises a terrestrial data station (5), a console (6), a computer and a display (7); such that the ground allegation centre receives the signal of the unmanned aerial vehicle group through the terrestrial data link station (5), the computer resolves the video, image and data information, displays it on the display (7), realizes the monitoring of the target point in real time; sends the control instruction through the console to adjust the view of the photoelectric pod and the flight status of the UAV, which are sent to the unmanned aerial vehicle group via the terrestrial data link station (5).

3. The UAV cluster based combat system utilizing ad-hoc network data chain as claimed in claim 1, wherein, the wireless ad hoc network data link comprises a plurality of wireless ad hoc network communication units, each wireless,; the communication module of the ad hoc network includes a main control module, a wireless communication module, a bus module and an interface module with a wireless ad hoc network communication unit arranged on each UAV. And a wireless ad hoc network communication unit also set up on the ground control centre.

4. The UAV cluster based combat system utilizing ad-hoc network data chain as claimed in claim 1, wherein, the interface module receives the real-time information collected by the photoelectric dunk and the target point position information, and transmits the real-time information and the target point position information collected by the main control module to the main control module through the bus module, and through the wireless communication the module sends the data out.

5. The UAV cluster based combat system utilizing ad-hoc network data chain as claimed in claim 1, wherein, the communication between nodes of a wireless ad hoc network data link is having a communication frequency of Between 200MHz ~1GHz, using LORA spread spectrum modulation, wireless ad hoc network data link using wireless ad hoc network protocol for communication.

6. The UAV cluster based combat system utilizing ad-hoc network data chain as claimed in claim 1, which includes that the frame structure of the wireless ad hoc network protocol comprises a beacon frame, a command frame, a newspaper frame, data Frame and response frames.

Date: 23/10/2020

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