Tactical unmanned aerial vehicle

Abstract

An unmanned vehicle is disclosed. The unmanned vehicle includes an aerial platform, a piloting system supported by the aerial platform, a medium source supported by the aerial platform, and a control system having a processor running computer executable code that actuates the medium source to emit a medium away from the aerial vehicle with an intensity sufficient to disorient a subject when the medium interacts with an exteroceptive sense of a subject.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . An unmanned vehicle, comprising:
 an aerial platform;   a piloting system supported by the aerial platform;   a medium source supported by the aerial platform; and   a control system having a processor running computer executable code that actuates the medium source to emit a medium away from the aerial vehicle with an intensity sufficient to disorient a subject when the medium interacts with an exteroceptive sense of a subject.   
     
     
         2 . The unmanned vehicle of  claim 1 , wherein the medium is a light source and the control system modulates the light source between a first state and a second state. The unmanned vehicle of  claim 2 , wherein the control system modulates the light source between the first state and the second state between 5 Hz and 25 Hz. 
     
     
         4 . The unmanned vehicle of  claim 1 , wherein the control system runs computer executable code that causes the medium source to be aimed at the subjects eyes. 
     
     
         5 . The unmanned vehicle of  claim 1 , further comprising an optical sensor carried by the aerial vehicle and configured to generate images depicting a face of the subject, and wherein the control system executes a facial recognition algorithm operating on the images to locate the subject's face, and wherein the control system supplies instructions to the piloting system to aim the medium source at the subjects face.  6 , The unmanned vehicle of  claim 1 , wherein the medium source includes an LED configured to generate light in the visible spectrum. 
     
     
         7 . The unmanned vehicle of claim  6 , wherein the LED generates white light. 
     
     
         8 . The unmanned vehicle of  claim 1 , wherein the medium source includes a laser configured to generate light in a visible spectrum, and at an intensity sufficient to be safe to eyes of the subject.