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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2016
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Falls Church, VA (US);
Omar Aboutalib, Diamond Bar, CA (US);
David W. Evans, Signal Hill, CA (US);
Gregory L. Larson, Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Annie D. Nguyen, Fountain Valley, CA (US);
Richard R. Ramroth, Long Beach, CA (US);
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Falls Church, VA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for controlling a swarm of UAVs that are stored on and released from an airborne platform, fly to and destroy a target, where the UAVs download target information from the airborne platform before being released therefrom, do not communicate with each other or the airborne platform while in flight, and do not depend of the presence of GPS. Each UAV includes a vision sensor that provides image data, a navigation module that receives the image data and causes the UAV to navigate and fly towards the target, and a target destruction module that receives the image data and causes the UAV to destroy the target.