MUMBAI, India, Jan. 23 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641001821 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on Jan. 7, for 'autonomous drone swarm system for search and rescue operations.'
Inventor(s) include Janavarshan L P; Harish G; Sandli Thakur; Nidhi Yadhav; D. Subitha; and J. C. Kavitha.
The application for the patent was published on Jan. 23, under issue no. 04/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure relates to an autonomous drone swarm system (100) for search and rescue operations is disclosed. The system includes multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) (102), each equipped with a high-resolution camera (104), GPS module (106), flight controller (108), obstacle-detection sensor (110), communication module (112), and a control unit (114). The control unit (114) executes a client-side portion of a split deep-learning human-detection model (118). An edge server (116) having a processor (202), memory (204), and network interface (206) communicates wirelessly with the UAVs (102). A recursive GPS-based path-planning module (120), a swarm coordination module (112), a split-execution inference architecture (114-1), a federated learning module (212), and an automated alert subsystem (214) collectively enable cell-based region division, decentralized coordination, split-model inference between client-side (118-1) and server-side (118-2) components, adaptive model updating, and transmission of detection alerts. The system performs cooperative autonomous search and distributed model adaptation."
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