Trusted AI-Enabled Shepherding of Human-Swarm Teams | Research Capability & Technology Portfolio

Technology to enable trusted inter-operation between humans and swarms of autonomous systems and platforms. Shepherding is the ability to guide, influence or reshape a group of autonomous systems towards a goal with optimised efforts to the shepherd and the group.

Competitive advantage

A unique fully-distributed human-swarm and swarm-on-swarm systems exist that can scale arbitrarily to any size with minimum complexity. This technology achieves this in a structured, verifiable, trustworthy and scalable manner
Multidisciplinary team with the capacity and facilities to prototype concepts theoretically, through simulation and on real-platforms
Novel architectures to enable efficient, low-CPU, and highly smart AI-enabled swarm systems

Impact

Enable commanders to take responsibility of large (semi-) autonomous heterogeneous swarms in a trusted, verifiable, and accountable manner
CPU and power efficient, highly smart AI-enabled swarm systems
Autonomous real-time management of the human-swarm relationship
Scalability of human-swarm logic
Transparent, explainable, and adaptive swarm control-logic
Trusted human-swarm operations

Successful applications

Autonomous coordination policies in ground-air unmanned systems interaction
Autonomous learning, reasoning and decision-making in dynamic heterogeneous swarm environments
Distributed contextual awareness for multi-agent systems and its application to military land vehicles

Capabilities and facilities

Indoor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) testing facilities
High-fidelity simulation environments including air traffic management and modelling of uninhabited all-domains vehicles (UxVs)
A variety of unmanned ground and air vehicles

Our partners

Defence Science and Technology (DST)
US Office of Naval Research
US Air Force Office of Scientific Research
US Army International Technology Center Pacific (ITC-PAC)