| 2006 DARPA Proposal |
| A. General Information |
The project objective of this SBIR is to design, develop and demonstrate enabling technologies for delivery of medical supplies and Life Support for Trauma and Transport (LSTAT) systems by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to combat medics for treatment, stabilization and subsequent evacuation of combat casualties from hostile situations. Our main focus of this project is advanced technologies for (first) autonomous UAV take-off, landing, and navigation in urban and wooded terrain, and (second) collaboration and coordination between human combat medics and UAV team members to effect safe and timely delivery of medical supplies and LSTAT systems so that appropriate first responder care and evacuation can be performed by combat medics during the most critical first hour of combat casualty care.
Air Drone has completed extensive research into the need of a multi-purpose VTOL UAV platform, which will have varied applications that would apply to: |
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- Police Surveillance
- Air Ambulance (trauma, life support transport)
- Emergency Response
- Bridge & Dam Infrastructure Inspection and Repair
- Toxic & Hazardous Chemical Emergency
- Biological Terrorist Attack response
- Air Shuttle Transportation
- Railroad and Power Grid System Monitoring and Inspections
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- Weapons Inspections
- National Forest Service
- Border Patrol
- Coastal Rescues
- Fire Protection
- Rescue Evacuation
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| As traffic conditions worsen on the ground, Air Drone’s technology will become more and more appealing to the public as a more immediate response is proven to be the “difference between life and death” in a tragic accident or disaster. Air Drone’s Urgent Response VTOL UAV will become a replacement for the out dated rescue and evacuation options and as a substitute to traditional methods of emergency transport. |
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| B. Identification and Significance of the Problem or Opportunity |
Air Drone believes the need for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is a necessity in today’s battlefield environment. With the enemy having such a vast array of methods of attack on our military personnel that are on search and rescue missions whether it be by land mines, car bombs, civilians with bombs strapped to their bodies or biological and chemical warfare methods. With an UAV that can be controlled by human combat medics from behind the line of fire this vehicle could safely and more efficiently effect a rescue or evacuation mission. The UAV could be equipped with all types of medical supplies and it could be a unmanned mobile Life Support for Trauma Transporter. (LSTAT). This vehicle could land and take off from any terrain whether it is a rooftop in Iraq to a jungle setting in Africa. Through today’s technology with GPS landings could be within 1 meter of the settings in close proximity to pedestrians or buildings because Air Drone’s technology of this vehicle has no exposed props such as a helicopter or other competitors in today’s VTOL marketplace. Another opportunity that presents itself with this project is the ability to build in space to carry extra payload for equipment such as the BIONET suit, which monitors vital signs of injured passengers on board while being transported back to a safe zone. The possibilities of equipment that this vehicle could transport to provide critical life saving procedures to our injured military personnel during the “golden hour” are countless.
Air Drone’s strategic partner Roadable Aircraft has completed the testing of three prototypes and also completed a US NAVY Cooperative Research and Development Agreement that Air Drone was born out of. The UAV that was developed built and flight-tested was conducted at the US Naval Air Warfare Weapons Division Center in Pt. Mugu CA. We completed the CRADA in 2004 at that time patents were obtained. |
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| Air Drone, Inc. and Air Intelligence Systems are divisions of the Mundus Group, Inc., Roadable Aircraft Inc and Goki Manufacturing Inc. are fully owned subsidiaries of the Mundus Group Inc. |
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