Wednesday 14 December 2016

Autonomous, unmanned swarmboats secure harbor approaches for US Navy



The US Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) recently showed off the progress it's making in the area of robotic warfare with a demonstration of how autonomous swarmboats can patrol and secure harbor approaches. The swarm of rigid hull inflatable boats (RHIB) equipped with the latest version of the agency's Control Architecture for Robotic Agent Command and Sensing (CARACaS) technology patrolled the reaches of lower Chesapeake Bay, Virginia with only remote human supervision as they coordinated actions to intercept and evaluate targets on the water.

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