DARPA to Produce One-Minded Drone Swarms Controlled By Smart-Phone App

December 31, 2011

The Department of Defense, by way of their research arm DARPA, (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) are now fast at it to incorporate a smart-phone application that can control not just one unmanned drone — but swarms of drones linked through a smart system application as if they are one-minded.
A statement on DARPA’s websitereads;

“DARPA is looking to tap the smartphone application development community with experience in application creation,” said Mark Rich, DARPA program manager. From novel approaches to networked connectivity, accelerometer use, user interfaces and others, DARPA hopes to revolutionize sensors built on smartphone-like technology. Rich believes this can be accomplished by adding commercial smartphone application developers to the innovation process to deliver deployed distributed sensor systems for warfighters.

According to Rich, “The rapid advancement and sophisticated capabilities in today’s smartphone technology provide opportunities to revolutionize the way sensor systems are developed and used. The integrated processing, storage, communications, navigation and orientation functions built into smartphone hardware and software can be leveraged to create far more powerful distributed sensor devices than we use today.”

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