Swarms of drones can be managed by one person

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00:00Imagine a console, a remote control pad, from which a single user or operator can control a swarm of drones for defense or security response, or outright assault or attack.

00:10No, this isn't animation stuff for your PS4 or Nintendo game console and remote pad, but real technology that civilians can access or afford.

00:20As we hear this VOA logon report from Julie Tabo.

00:23Field experiments at a government training facility demonstrate that a single human can manage a swarm of 100 or more autonomous drones and ground robots without added stress, according to the U.S. Defense Department's research agency, DARPA.

00:41The swarm commander uses a virtual reality interface to deploy and monitor the vehicles within a 10-block simulated environment.

00:48Their mission? To navigate the urban environment, avoiding obstacles and power lines to collect intelligence.

00:56The swarm commander can basically hit a single button to issue multiple tactics to the swarm, so that the swarm can go out and do the things that it's supposed to do.

01:09The findings show potential for military as well as civilian purposes, such as sending out drones to respond to natural disasters.

01:17The long-term dream goal is actually to be able to have heterogeneous teams of robots working alongside teams of humans in something like wildland fire response or disaster response in order to have a true societal impact.

01:34We want to be able to have humans focus on the tasks that they absolutely must do, that robots really can't do,

01:42but also ensure that our responders, for example, are safer.

01:49Drones can also be used and, in fact, are already being used for speedier package deliveries.

01:54Currently, the FAA regulations limit how many vehicles a single individual can supervise,

02:02and in the future we would like to be able to scale that number up for a single individual.

02:07The program is still in development, but researchers say their findings may quickly have impacts overseas as well as in the U.S.

02:15Julie Tabo, VOA News.

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