Swarm!
Swarm!. An Investigation into Drone Swarming tactics and Group Key Encryption Theora Rice. Outline. Inspiration History Drone Theory Uses Problems Current State Interesting Observations. Inspiration. Social insects Flexible Robust Decentralized Self-organized.
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Swarm! An Investigation into Drone Swarming tactics and Group Key Encryption Theora Rice
Outline • Inspiration • History • Drone Theory • Uses • Problems • Current State • Interesting Observations
Inspiration • Social insects • Flexible • Robust • Decentralized • Self-organized
History in the U.S.A. • Military Swarming - 1990s • Common tactic in non-linear, dispersed, and decentralized military operations • Several autonomous or semi-autonomous groups attack from multiple angles • Pulsing – replacing with refreshed groups • Natural evolution with gorilla tactics
Drone Swarm Goals • Fully or semi-autonomous drones • Able to act in unison • Reconfigure at a moment's notice • Able to react and make decisions
Uses • Combat • Mine Discovery • Crop pollination • Pollution tracking • Traffic monitoring • Emergency response • 3D mapping • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvimQq1zvoM
Group Key Communications • Group-oriented Communication • Essentially, one group key that allows communication • New member enters, new group key (forward security) • Member leaves, new group key (backward security)
Group Key Communications • Communication–Computation Efficient Group Key (CCEGK) Protocol • Tree structure • Initialization Operation • Join • Mass Join • Merge • Leave • Mass leave • Split • Key refresh
Problems • Group Key Communication • What has been transmitted is received (noise) • Latency • Storage size • Charging • Small drones, small batteries • The Human Mindset
Current Standing – United States • Universities • Naval postgraduate school, 2015 • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/swarming-drones.html • Kilobots • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnyDAuqorGo#t=96 • Inexpensive, open-source nanocopters
Current Standing – Other Countries • China • Anti-ship swarms, multiple news stories • Switzerland • http://www.fastcompany.com/3015075/fast-feed/the-perfect-tech-storm-3-d-printed-self-assembling-drone-swarms • Portugal • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3ernrkZ91E
Interesting Observations • Not many links for military swarm research • Many seemed to be taken down • Many articles saying the same thing with the same videos • Most public research coming out of Universities
References • http://actu.epfl.ch/news/the-matterhorn-like-you-ve-never-seen-it/ • http://blog.navaldrones.com/2013/03/evaluating-chinas-anti-ship-drone-swarms.html • http://www.fastcompany.com/3015075/fast-feed/the-perfect-tech-storm-3-d-printed-self-assembling-drone-swarms • http://faculty.washington.edu/paymana/swarm/bonabeau03-etcon.pdf • http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-06/future-flight-swarms-will-dominate-sky • http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130612/C4ISR/306120029/ • http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/kilobots-are-cheap-enough-to-swarm-in-the-thousands • http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/rgs_dissertations/2005/RAND_RGSD189.pdf • http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/iros-2012-ar-drone-helps-swarm-of-selfassembling-robots-to-overcome-obstacles • http://www.gii.udc.es/devuelve_fichero?nombre=2011_varela_et_all_nabic_aviones.pdf • http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=04722510 • http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.74.8689&rep=rep1&type=pdf