January 17, 2016 at 17:52Video: the drone catches the drone with a network
While researchers from the Oxford Research Group are working on a description of countermeasures against terrorist drones , the Human-Interactive Robotics Lab published a video with a drone developed in the laboratory to catch other UAVs.
The idea of using drones to eliminate drones is not new, there is a whole industry of systems for combating undesirable UAVs : these are laser guns that allow you to burn a quadrocopter in flight, systems that use UAVs to make UAVs uncontrollable. One of the effective ways to combat drones was a shotgun .
Robot technician Mo Rastgaar and his students are working on a drone project to capture other drones. Rastgaar came up with this idea two years ago when he found out that during the sports championship snipers protected the crowd from drones. The team had an interesting idea - to equip the multicopter with a gun with a network, so as not only to catch, but also to capture and carry away the target.
Such a system will be especially effective during events with a large number of people. Any other cannon that physically breaks the drone will entail the possibility of injuries - because the drone will fall on people. The network allows you to take the target to a safe distance.
HIRoLab's labs are working on completely different projects - for example, on the ankle prosthesis. The project of the hunter-drone became a fascinating experiment, which allowed the team to leave the room for fresh air and do something else. The development took two months, and the video at the beginning of the post was made in early 2015, but was published only in January 2016.
The idea of using drones to eliminate drones is not new, there is a whole industry of systems for combating undesirable UAVs : these are laser guns that allow you to burn a quadrocopter in flight, systems that use UAVs to make UAVs uncontrollable. One of the effective ways to combat drones was a shotgun .
Robot technician Mo Rastgaar and his students are working on a drone project to capture other drones. Rastgaar came up with this idea two years ago when he found out that during the sports championship snipers protected the crowd from drones. The team had an interesting idea - to equip the multicopter with a gun with a network, so as not only to catch, but also to capture and carry away the target.
Such a system will be especially effective during events with a large number of people. Any other cannon that physically breaks the drone will entail the possibility of injuries - because the drone will fall on people. The network allows you to take the target to a safe distance.
HIRoLab's labs are working on completely different projects - for example, on the ankle prosthesis. The project of the hunter-drone became a fascinating experiment, which allowed the team to leave the room for fresh air and do something else. The development took two months, and the video at the beginning of the post was made in early 2015, but was published only in January 2016.