
Автор: Simon Ng, Jason Beaufort Scholz, Hussein A. Abbass
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2025
Страниц: 404
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 45.3 MB
Swarming technologies are an emerging technology that have civilian and defence applications. These technologies consist of robotic and autonomous systems that can interact/act in concert with one another to achieve specific effects. As outlined at the start of this book, for something to count as a swarm, there needs to be many, not just a few, interacting systems. We currently lack a complete understanding or consensus about what a swarm is, which is at least partially a reflection of the reality that swarm development remains in its early stages. Despite this, swarming technology is of interest for a range of sectors, including agriculture, mining, space exploration and defence. In other areas of robotics, autonomous systems and Artificial Intelligence (AI), lack of agreement on key terms has hampered interdisciplinary discussion, for instance, in relation to the ethical and technical challenges of autonomous weapon systems. The use of autonomous weapon systems (“AWS”) in military swarms, a tactic promising greater military advantage, involves converging massed physical effects and concentrating combat power through autonomous technology.