Ensuring drone swarms maintain cohesive flight even if an individual aircraft's sensor fails or broadcasts corrupt data.
If an aircraft suffers a damaged IMU or software glitch and begins broadcasting erroneous location coordinates, naive averaging algorithms could cause the entire swarm to collide.
EvtolSwarm applies Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus algorithms: swarm members cross-check each other's reported positions against relative radar and optical ranges, mathematically identifying and isolating malfunctioning drones before erroneous data can corrupt the formation.
The isolated faulty drone is commanded to execute a safe vertical descent to the ground, while the remaining swarm members re-balance their flight formation without hesitation.