{"id":1032,"date":"2006-09-28T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T10:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2008-04-29T10:03:43","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T14:03:43","slug":"the-tracking-swarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"The Tracking SWARM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientisttech.com\/article\/dn10174-uncrewed-aircraft-swarm-together-indoors.html\">heads up from New Scientist (Link)<\/a>: the <a href=\"http:\/\/vertol.mit.edu\/prjinfo.html\">Aerospace Controls Lab at MIT (Link)<\/a> is working on autonomous, cooperative aerial vehicles; i.e. robot aircraft that work together. From the MIT Project page:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are investigating techniques that will enable the execution of continuous (24-7) mission operations using multiple autonomous vehicles (i.e., vehicle SWARMS) in a dynamic environment. We believe that a massively-distributed, intelligent airborne capability with little human supervision has the potential to provide many performance benefits in long-term mission operations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The video where a pair of these things track a moving ground target, a remote-controlled car, is pretty wild. They each have a quadrant and as the car drives in and out of their zone the robots hand off tracking to each other. I&#8217;d call it recommended viewing. And the video showing it landing on a moving target (aircraft carrier) just makes me want to see what the latest designs are for the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=247\">Littoral Combat Ship I mentioned a while back (reLink)<\/a>. This is some worryingly wicked stuff.<\/p>\n<p>After you check the videos out, stop by to see just how easy it is to get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rctoys.com\/\">one of the helicopters (Link)<\/a>. They didn&#8217;t have those when I was a kid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting heads up from New Scientist (Link): the Aerospace Controls Lab at MIT (Link) is working on autonomous, cooperative aerial vehicles; i.e. robot aircraft that work together. From the MIT Project page: We are investigating techniques that will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1032\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}