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Pentagon: Large groups of drones can be managed by a single person

2024-06-17 19:57:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Pentagon: Large groups of drones can be managed by a single person

Drones, source VOA

The US military says large groups of drones and robots can be managed by a single person without added stress to the operator. As Voice of America correspondent Julie Taboh reports, this technology can also be useful for civilian use.

Field experiments at a government training facility show that a single human can manage a flock of 100 or more autonomous drones and autonomous robots without adding to the burden on the operator, according to the Defense Department's Research Agency, DARPA.

"Swarm Commander" uses a virtual reality platform to deploy and monitor vehicles within a simulated 10-block environment.

Their mission is to fly in urban environments, avoiding obstacles and power lines to gather reconnaissance information.

"The swarm commander can basically with a single button control the tactical movements of the group of drones, giving them orders to take certain actions," says Julie A. Adams of Oregon State University.

The findings show that there is a potential to use drone arrays for both military and civilian purposes, such as using them to monitor natural disasters.

"The long-term goal is actually to be able to create heterogeneous teams of robots, working alongside teams of humans, for operations like fighting fires and other natural disasters. So this would have a really positive impact on society, using robots for functions that could be dangerous for humans. For example, the use of drones in difficult situations, such as controlling fires or other disasters by search and rescue teams," says expert Julie Adams.

Drones can be used and in fact they are already being used for faster postal deliveries.

"Currently, Federal Aviation Administration regulations limit the number of vehicles that can be supervised by a single individual, and in the future, we would like to be able to increase the number that a single individual is allowed," says expert Julie Adams.

The program is still in development, but researchers say its findings may soon have an impact in countries other than the United States./ VOA