Combat Drones: Hives, Swarms, and Autonomous Action?

Grimal, Francis; Sundaram, Jae

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“…Despite the significance and seriousness of such systems, particularly in military and defense activities, a number of ethical issues arise in relation to the use of such autonomous robotic swarms [34][35][36]. The first major issue is related to target discrimination.…”

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Blockchain Technology for Secure Communication and Formation Control in Smart Drone Swarms

Koulianos,

Litke

2023

Future Internet

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Today, intelligent drone technology is rapidly expanding, particularly in the defense industry. A swarm of drones can communicate, share data, and make the best decisions on their own. Drone swarms can swiftly and effectively carry out missions like surveillance, reconnaissance, and rescue operations, without exposing military troops to hostile conditions. However, there are still significant problems that need to be resolved. One of them is to protect communications on these systems from threat actors. In this paper, we use blockchain technology as a defense mechanism against such issues. Drones can communicate data safely, without the need for a centralized authority (ground station), when using a blockchain to facilitate communication between them in a leader–follower hierarchy structure. Solidity has been used to create a compact, lightweight, and effective smart contract that automates the process of choosing a position in a certain swarm formation structure. Additionally, a mechanism for electing a new leader is proposed. The effectiveness of the presented model is assessed through a simulation that makes use of a DApp we created and Gazebo software. The purpose of this work is to develop a reliable and secure UAV swarm communication system that will enable widespread global adoption by numerous sectors.

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Section: Ethical Considerationsmentioning

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Blockchain Technology for Secure Communication and Formation Control in Smart Drone Swarms

Koulianos,

Litke

2023

Future Internet

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“…Multiple authors express reasonable doubts that autonomous weapons systems would be able to comply with this principle (Grimal, 2018;Asaro, 2012). To comply with this rule, the intelligent weapons system must independently assess the proportionality of the achieved results of the application of the military force with potential civilian casualties.…”

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General Legal Limits of the Application of the Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems within the Purview of International Humanitarian Law

Дремлюга¹

2020

JPL

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This article focuses on the problem of regulation of the application of the autonomous weapons systems from the perspective of the norms and principles of international humanitarian law. The article discusses the question of what restrictions are imposed on the application of such weapons in the international humanitarian law. The article presents a number of principles that must be met by both the weapons and their method of their application: distinction between civilians and combatants, military necessity, proportionality, prohibition on causing unnecessary suffering, and humanity. The author concludes that from the perspective of the principles of the international humanitarian law, it is doubtful if autonomous systems would be able to comply with these principles. Weapons that hit targets without human intervention have been applied for a long time, but they have never had the independence that they have now. The issue of compliance of autonomous weapons systems with the international humanitarian law can be considered if sufficient experience of application of such weapons in real conditions is accumulated. This study demonstrates that it is impossible to say that autonomous weapons systems do not comply with the principles of humanitarian law in general. The paper provides policy recommendations and assessments for each of the principles under consideration. The author also concludes that it would be necessary not to prohibit autonomous weapons, because they do not comply with the principles of international humanitarian law, but to develop rules for their application and for human participation in their functioning. A significant challenge to the development of such rules is the opacity of these autonomous weapons systems, if we look at them as at the complex intelligent computer systems.

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“…Likewise, there really have been impressive recent developments that in part justify the hype. For example, some machines can outperform humans in extracting information from images and identifying objects on images [7], [53]. Similarly, in NLP, the latest generative model from OpenAI 20 , called GPT-3, can generate amazing human-like text on demand [54].…”

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Is this artificial intelligence?

Devedžić

2020

FACTA U EE

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of the most frequently used terms in the technical jargon (and often in not-so-technical jargon). Recent advancements in the field of AI have certainly contributed to the AI hype, and so have numerous applications and results of using AI technology in practice. Still, just like with any other hype, the AI hype has its controversies. This paper critically examines developments in the field of AI from multiple perspectives - research, technological, social and pragmatic. Part of the controversies of the AI hype stem from the fact that people use the term AI differently, often without a deep understanding of the wider context in which AI as a field has been developing since its inception in Mid 1950s.

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Combat Drones: Hives, Swarms, and Autonomous Action?

Cited by 8 publications

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Blockchain Technology for Secure Communication and Formation Control in Smart Drone Swarms

Blockchain Technology for Secure Communication and Formation Control in Smart Drone Swarms

General Legal Limits of the Application of the Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems within the Purview of International Humanitarian Law

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