Ξ The Senses
"It has extremely acute senses"
Ξ is sensitive to movement
Ξ can see in a full colour range
Ξ detects hazardous chemicals
Ξ alarms about radioactivity
Ξ drops sensors to listen
Ξ analyzes in real-time
It can detect moving objects such as vehicles, and follow them. Embedded video cameras record color videos and its digital cameras shoot high resolutions color photographs, if required, to register events in real-time at theaters.
For agile and aggressive manoeuvres it uses cameras to detect obstacles when flying at low altitudes and navigating in places, which can be tight and demanding.
With the help of its internal sensors and the ones it may drop, its capable of detecting hazardous chemicals and dangerous gases.
Its payload may have sensors to detect radioactivity and sensors with an embedded microphone.
While navigating it broadcasts real-time data »Ξ
Figure 1: yourDragonΞ flying with its own sensors inside and droppable ones as its payload
It has been specified to have several cameras and sensors inside.
It may drop external wireless sensors and it detects faulty sensors and delivers new ones.
It uploads data from dropped sensors, downloads collected sensor data and creates wireless ad-hoc sensor networks.
With this kind of senses it's an agile, aggressive and powerful UAV »Ξ
Ξ The Sight
"Sight is among the best developed of its senses"
Ξ gimbal embedding several cameras
Ξ real-time video recording
Ξ still photos at remote theaters
Having the gimbal embedding several cameras it offers real-time video recording and still photos shooting at remote theaters.
It also uses these for autonomous navigation to detect and avoid obstacles while manoeuvring aggressively in tight places »Ξ
yourDragonΞ has several cameras:
three video cameras: one in front capable to tilt and rotate, one in rear shooting backwards and one shooting downwards.
Front camera can also be used to take high resolution surveillance still images.
There also exists still digital cameras embedded. As a helicopter it is capable of providing bird views
and to model objects from several view points and build 3D digital models, if required.
To fly at low altitudes and in tight places it has to be able to avoid obstacles quickly.
For this it uses its cameras, which are shooting all the time creating a picture about the target theater.
It also uses embedded laser sensor to measure distances to objects.
It's capable of using the modern global navigation systems such as GPS and Galileo.
Optionally it may use its mobile phone system to get coordinates from the base,
which embeds an open standard mobile base station »Ξ
Ξ The Hearing
"The hearing is exceptionally acute"
Ξ listens to the network and base stations
Ξ receives data from dropped sensors
Ξ sensors while flying
It constantly listens to the network and base stations and the ad-hoc sensor networks it has created. It sensors both using its internal sensors and the external sensors it has dropped to detect meaningful events and objects at the theater. It may download new instructions and data to dropped sensors.
Filtering of sensor data is done by the base station, which both uploads this new information to the network and downloads for its next missions »Ξ
yourDragonΞ has been specified
and designed so that
it is capable of taking several sensors as payload.
It may drop new sensors if new areas to be sensored pop up or if the data collected
and analysed from the dropped one indicate that there is need for a denser sensor network.
It can drop smart bobs to sensor underwater events in which case it collects the sensored data from the bob.
It can be programmed to sensor certain kind of targets. By collecting data from sensors to be analyzed
by base station and only at certain time intervals it saves sensor's energy.
If necessary, it may erase sensors remotely.
It may carry some sensor with a microphone embedded as its payload »Ξ