Development of an Autonomous Multi-Agent Drone Protection and Apprehension System for Persistent Operations
Abstract
With the dawn of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) research beginning in the early 1900’s, UAV’s are just now beginning to have substantial impacts on society. UAV’s are recently seen bearing active roles in both civilian and military sectors, all while the number of registered UAV’s skyrocket. While most UAV’s are flown with good intentions, it only takes one adversarial UAV with malicious intent to cause profound turmoil and unrest. There is an urgent need for a system that can effectively detect and remove incoming threats. In this work, we will be focusing on autonomous quadcopters in order to demonstrate their usefulness in regards to the important mission. Specifically, this work proposes a proof of concept along with a prototype of a multi-agent autonomous drone system that can be used to detect, and capture a intruding adversarial drone. The functional Counter Unmanned Aerial System (CUAS) prototype is used to convey the feasibility of a persistent multiagent aerial protection and apprehension system by demonstrating important features of the mission through both simulation and field testing.
Degree
M.Sc.
Advisors
Rastgaar, Purdue University.
Subject Area
Energy|Aerospace engineering|Robotics|Systems science|Transportation
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