STRIKEWERX August 2023 UAS Challenge
A SUBMISSION TO Strikewerx UAS Challenge
Dome of Drone Interceptors (DODI)
DODI is a dome of drone interceptors capable of intercepting and destroying a swarm of drones that threaten a convoy or single vehicle. Relative to vehicles, DODI can:
Explain in detail how your solution tackles the stated problem."
DODI is a Dome of Drone Interceptors able to operate as an aerial, adaptive mine field between an attacking swarm and vehicles (aerial or ground vehicles) [RELEVANT].
DODI is a real bitch; she can protect up close, she can pursue, she can find you if you leave without her, she can find her own way home, and she can lie in her cage awaiting release. She INTEGRATES with kamikaze, electronic, or conventional armament capabilities. She can defend against simultaneous attack from multiple directions, and she can be replenished in real time.
By analogy, “Drone Light Shows” illustrate how drones can be coordinated in flight. Hence, most of an operational aerial mine field is piecemeal available using DJI-type quadcopters. However, quadcopters (and all rotary wing drones) are too slow and too fuel inefficient.
Airmen and soldiers will die from short-duration inefficient drones. Airmen and soldiers will die if the dome of drones is not in place when hostile drones are deployed up close or approach off the radar/sight grid.
The following are technology categories that go into DODI:
DODI’s secret sauce is now published (“now”, as in after 8/29/23, see http://www.terretrans.com/tech.html ). DODI is not an incremental improvement in airframes. DODI is a major advance in aviation made possible by the dominance of antiquated theories and antiquated airframes. The technology is detailed in the following series of papers:
Computational Fluid Dynamic (“CFD”) simulations were used in the above sequence of papers to provide details of four years of innovation . The details are in the papers.
DODI’s airframes are high speed. This is a technology advance over current high-efficiency airframes (e.g., Eta Glider) which are slow and fragile. The combination of high speed, high efficiency, and flat areas for photovoltaic cells enables high speed solar aircraft (i.e., low-maintenance robust electric propulsion), further extending DODI’s flight duration.
The latest innovations use distributed propulsion to enable a) efficiencies > 2X the best flying wing designs (i.e., B2 bomber) and b) low aspect ratio (“AR”) airframes at lift-drag ratios (“L/D”) > 4X as predicted by lifting line theory and realized by rotary wing aircraft. DODI has over 40 design degrees of freedom; the daunting task of this design process is made attainable by our design heuristics (see paper).
The following are aspects of faster, better, lower cost, and TECHNICAL MERIT:
These technologies are patent pending. Civil infringement penalties and criminal conspiracy to defraud penalties apply. [COMPLIANCE].
Indicate the development stage of your proposed solution.
Prototype/experiment
Specify any descriptive keywords that may be useful for a search related to your solution.
Drone, efficiency, airframe, computational fluid dynamics, aspect ratio, lift, drag, L/D, solar, towed platforms, VTOL, hybrid, solar, platform, HAPS, HALE, Suppes, patent
Point of contact’s name.
Galen Suppes, PhD, P.E.
Point of contact’s e-mail address.
gjsuppes@gmail.com
Point of contact’s phone number.
5736738164
Point of contact’s address.
920 Beverley Rd. #304, Charlottesville, VA 22911
Dome of Drone Interceptors (DODI)
DODI is a dome of drone interceptors capable of intercepting and destroying a swarm of drones that threaten a convoy or single vehicle. Relative to vehicles, DODI can:
- fly with as a protective dome (e.g., a short-response-time aerial mine field),
- be launched from (to form a dome or pursue distant targets, offense or defense),
- join along the way, and
- protect from hostile aerial or ground assault.
Explain in detail how your solution tackles the stated problem."
DODI is a Dome of Drone Interceptors able to operate as an aerial, adaptive mine field between an attacking swarm and vehicles (aerial or ground vehicles) [RELEVANT].
DODI is a real bitch; she can protect up close, she can pursue, she can find you if you leave without her, she can find her own way home, and she can lie in her cage awaiting release. She INTEGRATES with kamikaze, electronic, or conventional armament capabilities. She can defend against simultaneous attack from multiple directions, and she can be replenished in real time.
By analogy, “Drone Light Shows” illustrate how drones can be coordinated in flight. Hence, most of an operational aerial mine field is piecemeal available using DJI-type quadcopters. However, quadcopters (and all rotary wing drones) are too slow and too fuel inefficient.
Airmen and soldiers will die from short-duration inefficient drones. Airmen and soldiers will die if the dome of drones is not in place when hostile drones are deployed up close or approach off the radar/sight grid.
The following are technology categories that go into DODI:
- airframe technology (including launch, recovery, control surfaces, and actuators),
- propulsion electronics and battery energy storage,
- autonomous flight control with inter-vehicle coordination,
- solar power upgrades, and
- armament.
DODI’s secret sauce is now published (“now”, as in after 8/29/23, see http://www.terretrans.com/tech.html ). DODI is not an incremental improvement in airframes. DODI is a major advance in aviation made possible by the dominance of antiquated theories and antiquated airframes. The technology is detailed in the following series of papers:
- Heuristic-Level Interpretations of Airfoil Pressure Profiles
- Use of Distributed Propulsion to Increasing Efficiency (2D)
- Achieving High L/D in Low AR Lifting Bodies
- Towed Platform Approaches to Enable High Speed Solar Aircraft
Computational Fluid Dynamic (“CFD”) simulations were used in the above sequence of papers to provide details of four years of innovation . The details are in the papers.
DODI’s airframes are high speed. This is a technology advance over current high-efficiency airframes (e.g., Eta Glider) which are slow and fragile. The combination of high speed, high efficiency, and flat areas for photovoltaic cells enables high speed solar aircraft (i.e., low-maintenance robust electric propulsion), further extending DODI’s flight duration.
The latest innovations use distributed propulsion to enable a) efficiencies > 2X the best flying wing designs (i.e., B2 bomber) and b) low aspect ratio (“AR”) airframes at lift-drag ratios (“L/D”) > 4X as predicted by lifting line theory and realized by rotary wing aircraft. DODI has over 40 design degrees of freedom; the daunting task of this design process is made attainable by our design heuristics (see paper).
The following are aspects of faster, better, lower cost, and TECHNICAL MERIT:
- novel approaches to distributed propulsion toward high L/D
- low AR airframes against forces of high speed
- thin-plate board-stock design that is low cost
- 3D-printed components completing airframe construction
- high L/D that reduces propulsion/energy costs and enables smaller airframes to carry higher loads
- thin flat vehicles for stacking in smaller deployment cases/cages
- Without USA support, DODI goes forward with international collaborators and publication of all results.
- With USA support, world-wide patenting and USA manufacturing will be pursued. Without USA support, commercialization will be outside the USA with potent patent protection only in the USA.
These technologies are patent pending. Civil infringement penalties and criminal conspiracy to defraud penalties apply. [COMPLIANCE].
Indicate the development stage of your proposed solution.
Prototype/experiment
Specify any descriptive keywords that may be useful for a search related to your solution.
Drone, efficiency, airframe, computational fluid dynamics, aspect ratio, lift, drag, L/D, solar, towed platforms, VTOL, hybrid, solar, platform, HAPS, HALE, Suppes, patent
Point of contact’s name.
Galen Suppes, PhD, P.E.
Point of contact’s e-mail address.
gjsuppes@gmail.com
Point of contact’s phone number.
5736738164
Point of contact’s address.
920 Beverley Rd. #304, Charlottesville, VA 22911