The US Air Force Academy is attempting to teach autonomous unmanned air vehicles when to perform combat manoeuvres used by fighter pilots to counter potential swarms of adversarial UAVs.
The activity builds on a US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-sponsored unmanned air systems swarm competition staged last year between the US Military Academy, Naval Academy and Air Force Academy, says Del Christman, assistant professor at the USAF Academy, who leads research on the project. During that competition, student fixed-wing and quadcopter drones autonomously shot a virtual weapon to hit a sensor on an opponent’s UAV in flight.
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