RU2223803C1 - Method of injured person detection and useful loads delivery during search-and-rescue activity - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: life-saving equipment, particularly for rescuing persons from difficult-to-access areas. SUBSTANCE: method involves launching returnable unmanned aircraft equipped with repeater of radio-command control line signals; guiding aircraft towards injured person location; managing aircraft and load-bearing air-borne apparatus by analyzing of image from aircraft TV camera; launching load-bearing air-borne apparatus after injuring person detection by means of aircraft TV camera; managing load-bearing air-borne apparatus movement by radio-command control line through repeater; returning aircraft after load-bearing air-borne apparatus dropping and delivering useful load to injured person. EFFECT: possibility of large-scale rescue operations performing with the use of the same apparatuses at different rescue operation stages.

Description

 The technical solution claimed as an invention relates to the means of technology used to detect a victim and accurately deliver cargo to him, in particular, in the process of rescuing people, especially in hard-to-reach areas, for example, in the open sea or desert.

 The prototype of the proposed method is a method of saving those in distress according to the abstract of the application for the invention of the Russian Federation 93039158, IPC 6 A 62 B 37 \ 00, published on 10/20/96. In the prototype, the delivery of payload is carried out using an unmanned, remotely piloted aircraft equipped with on-board electronic equipment and a parachute. Rescue operations are carried out by parachuting a payload with its subsequent delivery to the victim.

 Common signs are the use of a remotely piloted aircraft and the throwing of a rescue device from a remotely piloted aircraft to the object.

 However, the use of the prototype is possible only after obtaining the exact coordinates of the victim. In the prototype, these coordinates are obtained using a satellite system, which leads to higher cost of work and loss of accuracy due to the possible movement of the victim. At the same time, there is a problem of accurate guidance, which can be solved, for example, by using a homing system for the victim’s radio beacon, containing a heavy system of accurate coordinate calculation using a gyro-stabilized platform and a passive radar station with a large aperture antenna.

 The purpose of the proposed technical solution is the creation of such a method for detecting the victim and accurate delivery of cargo for him during the search and rescue operations, which allows a wide class of rescue operations, while having the necessary accuracy to determine the relative location (angular distance) of the detected victim and the means of delivery of the payload , and, in addition, allows you to use the same device (television camera) at different stages of the rescue operation - search injured its payload and delivery thereto, as well as to combine the use of remotely-piloted aircraft and non-reclaimable returned, which leads to a cheaper process from the possibility of using secondary returned aircraft.

 The goal is achieved in the claimed technical solution.

 The essence of the technical solution lies in the fact that the method of detecting the victim and the exact delivery of cargo for him during the search and rescue operations includes launching an unmanned aerial vehicle to enter the disaster area, pointing the unmanned aerial vehicle to the location of the victim and throwing it from the unmanned aerial vehicle to the victim payload, and the unmanned aerial vehicle being launched is returnable, and it is equipped with a radio command signal repeater ION; while the flight of the returned unmanned aerial vehicle is controlled using a radio command control line, and it is controlled by analyzing an image from a television camera located on the returned unmanned aerial vehicle; after the victim is detected on the television camera screen, the unmanned aerial vehicle carrying the payload is launched from the returned unmanned aerial vehicle; formation of commands for radio guidance of an unmanned aerial vehicle carrier payload to the victim is carried out by analyzing the image of the relative position of the unmanned aerial vehicle carrier payload and the victim received from a television camera, and the guidance of an unmanned aerial vehicle carrier payload is controlled using radio command line control through a radio command repeater. After starting an unmanned aerial vehicle carrying payload towards the victim, the carrier device delivers the payload to the victim, and return the unmanned aerial vehicle from the command post.

 An example of a specific implementation of the method.

 A remotely piloted aircraft is used as the returned aircraft, and a remotely piloted payload aircraft is used as the unmanned aircraft payload carrier.

 The search and rescue operation begins with the command post operator launching a returnable remotely piloted aircraft of the Bee-1 type with radio control, on which the Sony DSR-TRV40E type camera works, the image from which is transmitted to the operator on the monitor. The operator looks at the monitor and, seeing the image of the area, begins to control the flight. After the image of the victim appears in the camera’s field of view, the operator turns and makes a new approach of the returned remotely piloted aircraft to the victim from the distance necessary for pointing the payload carrier, after which the operator controls simultaneously the remotely piloted hang glider and the payload carrier until the payload hits cargo to the victim and the return of the returned remotely piloted aircraft. Packaged rescue equipment is used as a payload - a life buoy, a mobile phone, clothes, food, necessary for the survival of the victim.

 From the foregoing, we can conclude that when analyzing the prior art did not find a similar method for detecting the victim and the exact delivery of cargo for him during the search and rescue operations, therefore, the claimed technical solution meets the criteria of "novelty", "inventive step" and "industrial applicability".

Claims (1)

A method for detecting an injured person and accurately delivering payload for him during search and rescue operations, including launching an unmanned aerial vehicle to enter the disaster area, guiding an unmanned aerial vehicle at the location of the victim and throwing a payload from the unmanned aerial vehicle to the victim, characterized in that the launched unmanned aerial vehicle is returnable and it is equipped with a signal transmitter of the radio command control line, while the volume of the returned unmanned aerial vehicle is controlled using a radio command control line, and it is controlled by analyzing the image from a television camera located on the returned unmanned aerial vehicle, after the victim is found on the television camera screen, the unmanned aerial vehicle carrier useful is launched from the returned unmanned aerial vehicle cargo, the formation of radio guidance commands of an unmanned aerial vehicle carrier useful load on the victim is carried out using the image analysis of the relative position of the unmanned aerial vehicle carrier payload and the victim received from a television camera, and the guidance of an unmanned aerial vehicle carrier payload is controlled using the radio command line through the relay radio commands, after starting the unmanned aerial vehicle payload carrier towards the victim, the carrier device delivers the payload to the victim, and from the command th point carry out the return of the returned unmanned aerial vehicle.