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Name: I failed to get any internships this summer, so I built an Autonomous Loitering Munition in my basem
Uploaded: 2026-06-30T18:05:28.205Z
Channel: Dylan Bowes
Description: I failed to get any internships this summer, so I built an Autonomous Loitering Munition in my basement, a drone that hunts other drones. (PART 1) Meet Doberman, a fixed-wing UAV that autonomously

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I failed to get any internships this summer, so I built an Autonomous Loitering Munition in my basement, a drone that hunts other drones. (PART 1) Meet Doberman, a fixed-wing UAV that autonomously detects, tracks, and physically intercepts target drones (fixed wing or quad) using onboard computer vision. No human in the loop during the engagement. The autonomy is built around an ACL3 mission flow: launch, intercept, recover. Everything else, (detection, tracking, pursuit) runs on a Raspberry Pi 5 doing real-time YOLOv8 inference, feeding flight commands straight into ArduPlane over MAVLink. Full BOM: ~$850. First flight is weeks away. As this is something I’m doing to market myself as an engineer and hopefully get an internship, I’m documenting the entire process in an upcoming YouTube video, meaning airframe design, the autonomy stack, the failures, and putting together a full build + first-flight video by August 1st. If you’re into robotics, planes, autonomy, or just want to see if this thing actually works, I’d love questions in the comments :)! p.s. Dear LinkedIn Moderation team, please note this drone is NOT explosive nor a weapon and merely acts as a kinetic interceptor for other drones (of which are my property) #Robotics #Engineering #Autonomy #UAV #Drones #EmbeddedSystems #ComputerVision

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