MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641064005 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on May 21, for 'an autonomous aerial mesh communication and disaster-relief system for infrastructure-deprived environments.'
Inventor(s) include Arka Saha; and Dr. Subramaniyaswamy V.
The application for the patent was published on May 29, under issue no. 22/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to an autonomous aerial mesh communication and disaster-relief system for infrastructure-deprived environments is disclosed, comprising a central control unit and a swarm of cooperative autonomous drones, each equipped with a flight controller, communication transceiver, sensor suite, and payload delivery mechanism. The system establishes a self-organizing, infrastructure-independent mesh communication network, preferably based on LoRa technology, enabling reliable drone-to-drone and drone-to-control communication without reliance on cellular or internet connectivity. Each drone broadcasts operational parameters including identification, position, battery status, and payload condition, while a distributed consensus-based task allocation module dynamically assigns roles without centralized scheduling. The system further incorporates survivor detection using thermal and optical sensing, autonomous navigation including GPS-denied capabilities via inertial and vision-based methods, and a payload actuation mechanism for precise delivery of relief supplies upon multi-criteria location verification. A corresponding method enables region segmentation, priority-based mission planning, cooperative task execution, survivor identification, adaptive navigation, and mission data logging, thereby facilitating efficient, scalable, and resilient disaster response operations."
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