23-07-2010, 02:48 AM
Swarm UAV
Some time ago, here and elsewhere, I believe I have mentioned that I had seen a draft RAND monograph (ca. 2007) on the use of swarm intelligence theory married to UAV’s. [See the book Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software [Paperback] at http://www.amazon.com/Emergence-Connecte...0684868768
Given the emergence of this symposium, I decided I should Google and see how far the concept had come. The answer in a sentence: The industriousness of the p*ssants in the military-industrial complex shows them to be busy bees droning on. Here is a representative sampling of links from within the first 20 items of a Google search for “swarm UAV”.
http://vertol.mit.edu/ (In this project at the Aerospace Controls Laboratory at MIT, we are investigating techniques that will enable the execution of continuous (24-7) mission ...)
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/20m-...gies-0496/
http://robots.net/article/1015.html
http://www.stormingmedia.us/46/4665/A466534.html (Swarm Intelligence for Autonomous UAV Control)
http://www.informs-sim.org/wsc04papers/042.pdf (a nine-page paper on parallel simulation of AUV swarm scenarios)
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1351774 (Self organized UAV swarm planning optimization for search and destroy using SWARMFARE simulation)
http://www.scs.org/pubs/jdms/vol3num3/JD...67-176.pdf (10 pp.) ( UAV Swarm Control: Calculating Digital Pheromone Fields with the GPU)
http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/categori..._1126.html ( If the command and control (C2) of today's mammoth unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) seems like a tough problem, consider futuristic, bio-inspired concepts for ... )
http://www.barnardmicrosystems.com/L4E_u...advantages
http://intellibriefs.blogspot.com/2005/0...-uavs.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2443366/posts (UAV Swarm Attack Waziristan Stronghold (Drone's D Day! Fearless fleet of robots strike in mass))
I remember well the day my step-mother ran over an in-ground nest of yellow-jackets with a motorized lawn mower… death from anaphylactic shock was narrowly averted.
Now consider that DARPA has micro-UAV’s well underway in the development phase, probably already tested, and capable of carrying spray or syringe-like mechanisms.
The larger ones, as we know, carry cameras and Hellfire missiles.
In addition to their deployment in war zones and other places (Yemen, Venezuela) and the fact that introductory discussion and permission has been sought for their use inside the continental US (CONUS), I remain quite hopeful that they will be used to shower love and affection on the peoples, plants, trees, lakes and rivers (or that perhaps they are decoys to lure away the enemy aircraft from someplace near Alpha Centauri). But I fear that these are nothing but machines for the deliverance of death and destruction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTIs-TBwcbk
Some time ago, here and elsewhere, I believe I have mentioned that I had seen a draft RAND monograph (ca. 2007) on the use of swarm intelligence theory married to UAV’s. [See the book Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software [Paperback] at http://www.amazon.com/Emergence-Connecte...0684868768
Given the emergence of this symposium, I decided I should Google and see how far the concept had come. The answer in a sentence: The industriousness of the p*ssants in the military-industrial complex shows them to be busy bees droning on. Here is a representative sampling of links from within the first 20 items of a Google search for “swarm UAV”.
http://vertol.mit.edu/ (In this project at the Aerospace Controls Laboratory at MIT, we are investigating techniques that will enable the execution of continuous (24-7) mission ...)
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/20m-...gies-0496/
http://robots.net/article/1015.html
http://www.stormingmedia.us/46/4665/A466534.html (Swarm Intelligence for Autonomous UAV Control)
http://www.informs-sim.org/wsc04papers/042.pdf (a nine-page paper on parallel simulation of AUV swarm scenarios)
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1351774 (Self organized UAV swarm planning optimization for search and destroy using SWARMFARE simulation)
http://www.scs.org/pubs/jdms/vol3num3/JD...67-176.pdf (10 pp.) ( UAV Swarm Control: Calculating Digital Pheromone Fields with the GPU)
http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/categori..._1126.html ( If the command and control (C2) of today's mammoth unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) seems like a tough problem, consider futuristic, bio-inspired concepts for ... )
http://www.barnardmicrosystems.com/L4E_u...advantages
http://intellibriefs.blogspot.com/2005/0...-uavs.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2443366/posts (UAV Swarm Attack Waziristan Stronghold (Drone's D Day! Fearless fleet of robots strike in mass))
I remember well the day my step-mother ran over an in-ground nest of yellow-jackets with a motorized lawn mower… death from anaphylactic shock was narrowly averted.
Now consider that DARPA has micro-UAV’s well underway in the development phase, probably already tested, and capable of carrying spray or syringe-like mechanisms.
The larger ones, as we know, carry cameras and Hellfire missiles.
In addition to their deployment in war zones and other places (Yemen, Venezuela) and the fact that introductory discussion and permission has been sought for their use inside the continental US (CONUS), I remain quite hopeful that they will be used to shower love and affection on the peoples, plants, trees, lakes and rivers (or that perhaps they are decoys to lure away the enemy aircraft from someplace near Alpha Centauri). But I fear that these are nothing but machines for the deliverance of death and destruction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTIs-TBwcbk
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