An officer's sidekick. Eyes up, so nobody goes in blind.
Nobody programs a route. An officer says what they need in plain words, and Dove keeps eyes on it, calls it in over the radio, and comes home when told.
Typed or spoken: follow the person in the red hoodie,
watch my six,
cover the alley.
Speech is turned into text locally, and a fixed parser maps the words to one job from a short list. If it doesn't understand, it says so instead of guessing.
{ Local speech recognition. Nothing leaves the scene. }
What Dove sees, where the subject is, and which way out is still open, on the device already in the officer's hands.
A chain of small parts that can each be checked. Every one does a single job, and the last one in line can say no.
When someone runs, an officer has two bad options: go after them around a corner they can't see past, or let them go. Dove is a third. It keeps eyes on the person from 20 to 30 metres up and tells each officer where they are, relative to that officer, over the radio.
It never goes in alone and it never acts on anyone. Every decision about the person stays with the people on scene. Its whole job is that nobody goes in blind.
Camera pixels go in at the top. A detector and tracker find people, the target layer locks the one the officer described, a fixed parser turns words into a job, the planner picks an action, the controller flies it, and the safety supervisor checks it last. The radio layer turns all of it into short callouts.
Information only flows one way, and every layer does a single job that can be tested on its own.
The planner picks one of six fixed actions twice a second: follow, search last known, reposition, hold, return, land. It never emits a motor command, and it never writes free text that something else has to interpret.
Same seed, same routes, same verdict: every milestone passed three runs in a row. Given the same inputs, Dove makes the same call. Every time.
Every command passes a safety supervisor right before the autopilot. Altitude, speed, geofence, distance from home and battery are frozen limits that nothing upstream can change. Leave the geofence and Dove returns home.
Each flight writes telemetry, detections, commands, decisions and every rejected command to disk. Any mission can be replayed second by second, like the one above.
Dove knows “red hoodie, walking east.” It never knows who. People in the simulation are P1 to P15, with made-up outfits.
When more than one person fits the description, Dove holds and asks. No answer means no lock.
It keeps eyes on the subject for officers already on scene. It doesn't act on people, and it decides nothing about them.
Altitude, speed, geofence, battery and distance from home live in one file that nothing upstream can change.
Crewed aircraft nearby? Dove gives way, says so on the radio, and goes back to work once the sky is clear.
Every command, decision and rejection is logged. Any flight can be replayed and checked afterwards.
Simulation first, on purpose. Dove earns each step in software, three runs in a row, before anything leaves the ground.
Flight, camera-only perception, follow, the loss ladder, voice commands, the live dashboard. Full demo PASS 3/3.
Radio callouts, the containment map, thermal, ask-don't-guess, crowds, and a map of downtown Evansville from open data.
Every new behaviour flown three times in the GPU simulator: gimbal, thermal, crowds, wind, GPS loss, aircraft.
The same software on a real X500-class frame, on a closed test field, with the same safety supervisor.
A supervised trial with one agency, under its own policy, with community review before any flight.
Nobody went in blind.
Nobody was identified.
Dove came home.
Every officer home. Dove keeps watch from above so the people on the ground make their calls with more distance and less guessing.