CTEDS3 - Cooperative Threat Engagement using Drone Swarms

Purpose and goal

This project aims to further develop swarm-based capabilities to support autonomous intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions. The capabilities are based on distributed mission planning and shared situational awareness, inside and outside the swarm. The integration of these technologies into a realistic simulation environment and subsequent validation will increase our understanding and our ability to develop capabilities in the field and underpin future advances in the field.

Expected effects and result

The results are applicable in any scenario where distributed mission planning based on shared situational awareness is warranted, and where coordination and perception are essential for completing the mission. Relevant scenarios include, but are not limited to search and surveillance with human(s)-in-the-loop. Example applications may include forest, infrastructure and farmland surveillance. Collaborative search for missing people, crowd surveillance and natural disaster assessment.

Planned approach and implementation

The project will further develop autonomous swarm solutions, AI methods, technologies and perform validation of project results in a realistic environment. Partly in collaboration with the Swedish Arena. Having autonomous swarms in the arena enables exploration of how communication, shared resources, shared capabilities and cooperation should take place, which is important as more and more autonomous, cooperating units are expected to be part of future collaborative arial systems.