Global communication and control

• US 10,069,918 B2
• Filed: 11/11/2015
• Issued: 09/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: UT-Battelle LLC
• Original Assignee: UT-Battelle LLC
• Inventors: Harter, Andrew, Stinson, Brad, Kabela, Erik
• Primary Examiner(s): Benlagsir, Amine
• Application Number:
  US14/938,582
• Publication Number:
  US 20170134497A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,028 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/0004 Gaseous mixtures, e.g. polluted air gaseous biological material G01N33/497; exhaust gas of internal combustion engines G01M15/102
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561

Abstract

A process detects media dispersion. The process detects the dispersion of contaminants through distributed remote sensor platforms that connect one or more sensors on a remote device. The process transmits detection data from the distributed remote sensor platform to a radiation tolerant satellite router. A gateway connects the radiation tolerant satellite router to a hardware server and converts the detection data to a compatible form with a protocol used by a hardware server. The process generates a plume model in response to the detection data and meteorological data that models dispersion plumes and activates and deactivates selected sensors in response to a forecasted to dispersion area.

Claims

1. A global communication and control process comprising:

detecting a dispersion of contaminants data through a plurality of distributed remote sensor platforms connected to one or more sensors on a remote device;

transmitting the detection data from the distributed remote sensor platforms to a radiation tolerant satellite router;

processing the detection data at a gateway that connects to the radiation tolerant satellite router, the gateway converts the detection data to a compatible protocol used by a hardware server,

transferring the detection data to the hardware server;

generating a plume model in response to the detection data and a meteorological data that models dispersion plumes; and

activating selected one or more sensors of the one or more sensors in response to a forecasted dispersion area generated from the plume model;

where a communication between the radiant tolerant satellite router and the gateway occurs through a packet switch protocol that transmits an algebraic equation that describes a functional relationship between a series of packets transmitted from the radiation tolerant satellite router to the gateway.

2. The process of claim 1 where the process deactivates the selected one or more sensors in response to the forecasted dispersion area generated from the plume model.

3. The process of claim 1 where the one or more sensors comprise static or mobile sensors and virtual sensors that are generated from a virtual configuration file that generate the virtual sensors and connect the static or mobile sensors to one or more of the plurality of distributed remote sensor platforms, where the virtual sensors determine molecular composites of materials.

4. The process of claim 1 where the one or more sensors are mobile sensors that are a unitary part of an unmanned aerial vehicle.

5. The process of claim 4 where the activation of the selected one or more sensors comprises configuring the one or more sensors in response to the generated plume model.

6. The process of claim 1 where the generation of the plume model occurs at least as fast as a same rate as the detection data is received at the gateway enabling the process to direct and control the selected one or more sensors in real time.

7. The process of claim 1, where the packet switched protocol does not send replacement packets when packets are lost.

8. The process of claim 7 where the packet switched protocol executes a modified linear network coding to generate the replacement packets for the lost packets.

9. The process of claim 8 where the series of packets is transmitted nonconsecutively.

10. The process of claim 7 where the packet switched protocol executes a random linear coding that combines several packets into a same sized packet.

11. The process of claim 1 further comprising regenerating the plume model in response to the detection data and meteorological data that models the dispersion plumes and the detection data received from the one or more sensors that were activated in response to the forecasted dispersion area generated from a prior plume model.

12. The process of claim 1 where the detection data samples an aerosol or sample of air.

13. The process of claim 1 where the one or more sensors comprises mobile sensors, buoyed sensors, and static sensors.

14. The process of claim 1 where at least some of the one or more sensors are integrated into a UAV.

15. A global communication and control process comprising:

detecting a dispersion of contaminants data through a plurality of distributed remote sensor platforms connected to one or more sensors on a remote device;

transmitting the detection data from the distributed remote sensor platforms to a radiation tolerant satellite router;

processing the detection data at a gateway that connects the radiation tolerant satellite router to the gateway that converts the detection data to a compatible protocol used by a hardware server and transferring the detection data to the hardware server;

generating a plume model in response to the detection data and a meteorological data that models dispersion plumes; and

activating selected one or more sensors of the one or more sensors in response to a forecasted dispersion area generated from the plume model;

where the detecting, the transmitting, the processing, the generating, and the activating occur autonomously in real-time without human intervention; and

where a communication between the radiant tolerant satellite router and the gateway occurs through a packet switch protocol that transmits an algebraic equation that describes a functional relationship between a series of packets that recreates packets missing from a transmission from the radiation tolerant satellite router.

16. An autonomous global communication and control system comprising:

a central processor processing executable code accessed from a random access memory, in which the executable code;

detects a dispersion of contaminants data through a plurality of distributed remote sensor platforms connected to one or more sensors on a remote device;

transmits the detection data from the distributed remote sensor platforms to a radiation tolerant satellite router;

processes the detection data at a gateway that connects the radiation tolerant satellite router to the gateway that converts the detection data to a compatible protocol used by a hardware server and transferring the detection data to the hardware server;

generates a plume model in response to the detection data and a meteorological data that models dispersion plumes; and

activates selected one or more sensors of the one or more sensors in response to a forecasted dispersion area generated from the plume model;

where a communication between the radiant tolerant satellite router and the gateway occurs through a packet switch protocol that transmits an algebraic equation that describes a functional relationship between a series of packets that recreates packets missing from a transmission from the radiation tolerant satellite router.