IED neutralization from an airborne platform

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency, DTRA, currently uses technologies capable of detecting IEDs using airborne sensors that are demonstrated as reliable. These systems are only used for detection purposes and are not capable of neutralizing the IED. Due to IEDs being located in remote, dangerous, and hostile locations, there is high casualty risk for personnel to manually neutralize the target by traveling to the sensor detected location and neutralizing the IED. TIP proposes to research and design a deployable multirotor, optimized for the mission, to be launched from a Group 3 UAV. An optimized deployment mechanism and initiation of explosive device will be explored. The goal is to provide a technology demonstration using a commercial off the shelf multirotor deployed from an winged subscale UAV to simulate the mission flight profile and gather data for the Phase II deployable multirotor.