An Oregon State University (OSU) computer science professor is part of a team that will receive up to $7.1 million to develop a small-drone swarm infrastructure to help the U.S. military in urban combat, OSU recently announced.
The contract is part of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) OFFSET program, short for Offensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics. The program’s goal, according to DARPA’s website, is “to empower … troops with technology to control scores of unmanned air and ground vehicles at a time” …
https://unmanned-aerial.com/researchers-developing-autonomous-drone-swarms-darpa-grant
Unmanned Aerial | Nov. 27, 2017
