DARPA has announced that it is soliciting proposals for the second “swarm sprint” for its OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program.
OFFSET envisions future small-unit infantry forces using small UAS and/or small unmanned ground systems (UGSs) in swarms of 250 robots or more to accomplish “diverse missions in complex urban environments.”
According to DARPA, each of the five core “sprints” focuses on one of the key thrust areas: Swarm Tactics, Swarm Autonomy, Human-Swarm Team, Virtual Environment, and Physical Testbed.
The second group of “Swarm Sprinters” will get the chance to work with one or both of the OFFSET Swarm Systems Integrator teams to develop and assess tactics, as well as algorithms, to enhance autonomy.
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Intel's Shooting Star UAS light up Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 Opening Ceremony
The Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 Opening Ceremony featured 1,218 of Intel's Shooting Star UAS, in what was the Winter Olympics’ first-ever drone light show.
The flight, which was prerecorded for the event, set a Guinness World Records title for the “most unmanned aerial vehicles airborne simultaneously,” breaking Intel’s previous record of 500 UAS flown simultaneously in Germany in 2016.
Teams of "swarm systems integrators" to develop UAS swarm infrastructure for US military
In an effort to help the U.S. military in urban combat, two teams of “swarm systems integrators” will look to develop a UAS swarm infrastructure, using funding from a multi-million-dollar contract that is part of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) Offensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program.
The goal of the program is “to empower … troops with technology to control scores of unmanned air and ground vehicles at a time.”
The two teams will be responsible for developing the system infrastructure and integrating the work of the “sprint” teams, which will focus on swarm tactics, swarm autonomy, human-swarm teaming, physical experimentation and virtual environments.
University of Colorado engineers develop new UAS swarming technology
A team of University of Colorado (CU) engineers has developed a new UAS swarming technology that allows multiple UAS to be controlled at the same time by a single operator.
In collaboration with the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, the CU team tested this new technology at the Pawnee National Grassland in Weld County, Colorado for three weeks in August.
According to the DailyCamera.com, this project was granted the “first-ever approval by the Federal Aviation Administration to allow multiple aircraft to be manned by a single pilot.”
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