Drones taught to "sniff" nuclear and chemical weapons: they will help the military in battle (video)
Kim - the leader of the project - said that a request for drones, which could read chemical, biological and radiation danger, was dictated by the customers of the drones. The team worked a lot to study all the requests. "Customers asked if UAV could" sniff "these dangers instead of people. They were interested in how reasonable it is to be UAV to look, to apply, to determine and to determine the location of these dangers without a remote operator," he said.
Based on these results, the executive office of the combined program of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear protection has financed the DRAPER program called CSIRP. It provides for the installation of special sensors on UAVs that could detect bio- and radio safety.
"Draper has developed a system of autonomy and an algorithm for sensors to be expanded, modular and stable mobile platform that is independent of vehicles and processing systems," said Julius Rose, Deputy Director of sensors and delivery. In addition to the search, detection and mapping of dangers, drone wants to provide an autonomous flight system and "teach" to capture obstacles.
According to the leader of the project, these options will help the military in the war zone to have a safe, network and environment attached to the environment. The new Draper for CSIRP capabilities use many input environmental data, as well as the algorithm for combining sensors, which can synthesize data from tools, including GPS, Lidar, inertial measuring devices, magnetometers and cameras.
All this combined information is designed to provide reliable and autonomous work through the use of new CSIRP algorithms that allow UAVs to detect and avoid obstacles. We will remind, in June 2023 in the Russian Federation declared the first tests of nuclear drone "Poseidon". The enemy will be affected by the explosive wave, radioactive contamination, tsunami and other devastating consequences.