Drone Guidance System

Over the past seven years, PhasorLab has developed a GPS-indpendent platform that provides highly accurate Position, Navigation and Tracking (PNT) services built around a mesh network solution called Hyper Sync Network or HSN. HSN is a resilient, robust, and secure Time and Frequency Distribution Network with a high-degree of synchronization quality (<<1ns in time, <<1ppb in frequency) which can be easily deployed as mobile applications without any preplanning for providing cost-effective PNT services. HSN has been matured into a compact solution that has been mounted on commercial and custom-made drones, and has even been evaluated independently by third parties such as the US Department of Transportation, as an alternative and backup to GPS. Most drones today are heavily reliant on GPS for all position data and flight control. In this proposal, we expand our HSN capabilities to develop a new product called Drone Guidance System (DGS). DGS will provide real-time PNT services to  swarms of drones. By enhancing HSN algorithms, DGS will enable drones to become aware of both relative and absolute positions of other airborne drones even without GPS and also to communicate with them. We will also add new features to demonstrate autonomous capabilities such as take-off, return to base and swarm-based flying without GPS access. We believe these much needed capabilities will enhance USAF’s drone-based needs. We will demo a 4 drone DGS swarm with these features in our Nashua, HQ at the end of Phase 1.