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(12) PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATION (21) Application No.6843/DELNP/2008 A
(19) INDIA
(22) Date of filing of Application :08/08/2008 (43) Publication Date : 24/10/2008
(54) Title of the invention : "UAV DECISION AND CONTROL SYSTEM"
(51) International classification :G06F 19/00 (71)Name of Applicant :
(31) Priority Document No :60/757,886
1)CARMEL-HAIFA UNIVERSITY ECONOMIC
(32) Priority Date :11/01/2006 CORP.LTD
(33) Name of priority country :U.S.A.
Address of Applicant :IBM BUILDING, HAIFA
(86) International Application No :PCT/IL2007/000038 UNIVERSITY, MOUNT CARMEL, 31905 HAIFA, ISRAEL.
Filing Date
:10/01/2007 Israel
(87) International Publication No :WO 2007/080584 2)TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
(61) Patent of Addition to Application
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Filing Date
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FOUNDATION LTD
(72)Name of Inventor :
1)BEN ASHER, YOSEF
(62) Divisional to Application Number :NA
2)FELDMAN, SHARONI
Filing Date
(57) Abstract :
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3)GURFIL, PINCHAS
The present invention relates to a hierarchical system and method for task issignment (TA), coordination and communication of
multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's) engaging multiple attack targets and conceives an ad-hoc routing ilgorithm for
synchronization of target lists utilizing a distributed computing opology. Assuming limited communication bandwidth and range,
coordination of JAV motion is achieved by implementing a simple behavioral flocking algorithm jtilizing a tree topology for target list
routing. The TA algorithm is based on a jraph-theoretic approach, in which a node locates all the detectable targets, dentifies them and
computes its distance to each target. The node then produces an tttack plan that minimizes the sum of distances of the UAV's in the
subtree of a liven node to the targets.
No. of Pages : 40 No. of Claims : 23
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