Dear
Harshwardhan,
Just
viewed a video about your drones and got , both impressed and proud
I
have no doubt, one of these days , you will come up with the innovation that I
have described in my following blog
If
you pull this off , India can leapfrog the rest of the world in “ drone
delivery “ of everything ( - an essential condition for E Commerce to flourish
)
It
may even get adopted as THE STANDARD for the entire
Drone Manufacturing Industry , world-wide
With
regards,
Hemen
Parekh / Mumbai / hcp@RecruitGuru.com
/ (M) 98,67,55,08,08
A Swarm-O-Drone is born
[ Swarm-O-Drone
= A Drone with built –in “ Swarm
Algorithm “ for collision avoidance ]
Look out for this headline in
Media within 2 / 3 years , by
which time , millions of drones would
be flying overhead . Drones made by start-ups / cottage industries /
you-name-it
Even from self-assembled ( DIY
) drone components, ordered over Amazon / Flipcart / Alibaba !
Drones selling for a few
thousand rupees and used for unthought-of
uses and especially for delivering
anything ordered online – even from your next door chemist (
backbone of E Commerce ]
Even drones capable of carrying
one person from point A to point B , like an Uber / Ola
Drones flying over city buildings and over distant deserts / jungles / rivers / mountains / in-accessible places
How can we ensure that , in
such a “ free for all “ scenario,
drones do not keep colliding with each other ?
Of course, modern aircrafts
have radar-based “ Collision Avoidance
Systems “ , which alert the pilots of approaching aircrafts to take
evasive action ( normally , rules re : turning to right / dipping or climbing )
EU and India have recently come
out with “ Drone Flight Regulations “
, which envisage arrangements similar to ATC ( Air Traffic Control )
towers , to direct “ drone traffic “
That works fine when only few
thousand manned Airplanes are
flying over any country at any given time and along rigidly pre-defined Air-Corridors and at predetermined heights and which are
constantly in radio contact with, at least one ATC tower at all times ( - which
, using GPS , accurately plots the position of all the aircrafts in its
vicinity and their directions and destinations )
But that won’t work when
a MILLION unmanned drones are
flying in all directions , and at different heights and
at different speeds and at any time ! Quite like
a huge Swarm / Flock of tiny
birds
But how come , birds never ( or
rarely ) collide , without communicating with
each other ?
Apparently , each bird has
embedded / hardcoded into its brain , some AI
software that senses the distance from surrounding birds , the direction of travel and speed , not only
of self but also of the surrounding birds !
This software must be ensuring
that there is no collision despite the entire swarm rapidly changing the
“ flying parameters “ in
unison
Call it “ Swarm Algorithm “
Moral of the story :
· Historical
method of external control (
through ATC ) just won’t work when millions of unmanned drones are flying all over , in a totally random and unpredictable fashion
· Only
thing that can work is to ban any drone that does not have
embedded into it , the Swarm
Algorithm ( copy the nature ) , described above
· Just
like Industry Standards for many industries , International Civil Aviation
Organization [ ICAO ] , must lay down “ Swarm-O-Drone “
standards for Drone Manufacturing Industry
It is always advisable to
anticipate / envisage the “ Direction of
Technology “ and come up with solutions which nullify its potential ill-effects/ misuse
Swarm-O-Drone is a
case in point
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17 Nov 2017
www.hemenparekh.in /
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