Posted on Jan 9, 2018
Drone swarm tactics get tryout for infantry to use in urban battlespace
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The science fiction-sounding goal: Put an autonomous robot swarm of 250 or more drones under the control of light infantry soldiers or Marines to do complex tasks on the urban battlefield.
Drone swarm tactics get tryout for infantry to use in urban battlespace
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"The science fiction-sounding goal: Put an autonomous robot swarm of 250 or more drones under the control of light infantry soldiers or Marines to do complex tasks on the urban battlefield."
That is a perfect example of an oxymoronic statement.
'Under the control' and autonomous (in the usuall since) are diametrically opposed. You are either telling it/them what to do or your not, if they are not capable of ignoring outside control, they are not autonomous.
That is a perfect example of an oxymoronic statement.
'Under the control' and autonomous (in the usuall since) are diametrically opposed. You are either telling it/them what to do or your not, if they are not capable of ignoring outside control, they are not autonomous.
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MAJ Montgomery Granger
I believe the context is that each drone acts independently within the parameters of an algorithm specific to a task or set of tasks chosen by the controlling soldier(s). Literally you are of course correct.
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SSG Robert Webster
MAJ Montgomery Granger - I do think that they could have come up with a better terminology for what in effect is a 'massive parallel processing network' using what would be considered an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to accomplish one or more assigned task and reporting to the operator.
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