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Team Guardian Affordable and portable drone protection
Number of Consumers Spoken to: 10Total Number of Consumers Spoken to: 20
Protection against emerging asymmetric threat of commercial off-the-shelve (COTS) UAS. Solution will be able to counter drones regardless of their type control or specifications. Sponsor should care because COTS drones pose a threat that is
currently not understood and no countermeasures are in operation.
Alon KipnisFabian Schvartzman Han Ye Markus
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Science / VeteranProduct / Veteran
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Systems Engineering / Mechatronics
Project: Countering Asymmetric Drone ActivitiesSponsor: U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Group (AWG)Military Liaisons: John Cogbill and Scott Maytan
Guardian: Customer Discovery
Hypothesis:• Existing products sufficiently solve the problem
Experiments:• Discuss top three scenarios with sponsors and military liaisons (-> customer workflow)• Discuss existing products with sponsors, mentors and other partners
Results:• Description of top three scenarios• Solution can be fixed to a facility or vehicle or can be mobile (carried by a human)• More applications, therefore bigger market for protection of fixed assets• No solution concept for swarms of drones of exists• High level of automation is desired, solution should not require extensive training• Range < 400m is not sufficient• Radiofrequency or GNSS jamming only provides limited solution• Simple device that requires little training is desired
Action:• Focus on fixed solution (scenario: forward operating base)• Test hunter drone as solution (MVP)• Develop requirement for activities (customer workflow)
Guardian: Mission Model Canvas
Requirements Engineering- Define top three scenarios of deployment- Define performance limitations of current systems- Functional structureSystem design- System and components engineering
- U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Group
- Ground forces
- DIUX
- Depending on solution: and counter measures
- Commercial drone manufacturers (e.g. DJI)
- Suppliers of Do-it-yourself drone kits
-FAA
-FCC
- Other agencies working on the same problem
- Primary: U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Group (budget, capability)
- Secondary: Ground forces operating within approximately 20 miles of adversaries (reach of today’s commercial drones)
Countering Drone Threat:- Understand specific requirements of AWG
- Effective countering regardless of specific drone
- Provide modular solution to deescalate the situation proportionally to the threat (sequential)
- Gain intelligence while mitigating thread
- Scalability for swarms
- Low training need, easy to use
- affordable- portability
- Provide proof of concept
- Pilot project with one forward operating base (FOB)
Fixed:- System design & engineering
Variable- Purchase drones for testing
- Access to relevant ground forces to define relevant scenarios- U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Group to define relevant set of capabilities- Other agencies working on the same problem- Hardware to test
- Need buy-in from U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Group
- Need implementation by ground forces
Beneficiaries
Mission AchievementMission Budget/Costs
Buy-In/Support
Deployment
Value PropositionKey Activities
Key Resources
Key Partners
Guardian: Value Proposition Canvas
Products& Services
Counter drone measure for FOB or vehicle-mounted
- New capability countering emerging threat
Customer Jobs
Create capabilities for Army- Incomplete protection with
existing solutions - Non-flexible and only partially portable solutions, so protection only for camps- No identification of payload/threat level
U.S. Asymmetric Warfare Group
Gains
Pains
Gain Creators
Pain Relievers
- Adequate solution to emerging asymmetric threat - Portable and flexible protection
- Emerging threat is better understood
- Emerging threat is mitigated
Guardian: Value Proposition Canvas
Products& Services
Counter drone measure for FOB or vehicle-mounted
- Modular and sequential approach- Gain intelligence while countering
Customer Jobs
Execute mission- Distraction from mission- Threat- Complex, manual solutions
Ground forces
Gains
Pains
Gain Creators
Pain Relievers
- Gain intelligence for mission- Ability to focus on mission goals
- Reduce mission irritation from drones
- Mitigate threat
- Minimal training, easy to use
Customer workflow
Detection and Identification
Decision to Engage
Plan engagement
Perform engagement
Assess engagement
Success?
Yes
No
According to activity customer workflow (activity diagram) global requirements can be broken down more granularly
End operation
Scope of solution
Minimum viable product
Drone defender Raptor birds Defense contractors Skywall
• Range < 400m• Can’t protect
larger facilities• Trained personnel
required• Not easy to use• Still to heavy to be
included in squad as a mobile solution
• Species-appropriate treatment can’t be entertained at military base
• Radiofrequency jamming as well as GNSS jamming and spoofing are limiting solutions
• Future navigation concepts like dynamic autonomous navigation using imagery information from camera will not be affected
• Even lower range than drone defender
• Can’t protect larger facilities
• Trained personnel required
• Not easy to use• Still to heavy to be
included in squad as a mobile solution
Hypothesis: Problem is sufficiently solved by existing technology
Learnings: Shortcomings of existing technology
Appendix
Minimal viable product