Industry Led Use-Case Development for Human-Swarm Operations

Understand

In the domain of unmanned vehicles, autonomous robotic swarms promise to deliver increased efficiency and collective autonomy.

• How these swarms will operate in the future, and what communication requirements and operational boundaries will arise are yet to be sufficiently defined.
• A workshop was conducted with 11 professional unmanned-vehicle operators and designers with the objective of identifying use-cases for developing and testing robotic swarms.
• Three scenarios were defined by experts and were then compiled to produce a single use case outlining the scenario, objectives, agents, communication requirements and stages of operation when collaborating with highly autonomous swarms.