- Status: Call for tenders
Background
It can be assumed that unmanned systems will increasingly be deployed in swarms in the future in order to maintain internal and external security. Maintaining effective communication is particularly challenging in areas with natural or dynamic sources of interference. The increased use of modern methods of electronic warfare and uncontrollable environmental conditions also pose a major challenge. For example, frequency-based communication is subject to multiple sources of interference to the electromagnetic spectrum in typical operational scenarios, which can come from the terrain, weather, technical sources of interference, general unavailability of a communication method or electronic warfare. As a result, there is often a lack of robust methods for transmitting signals, messages and data from autonomous systems to the situation center.
Aim
The MoIn-LaMAS program aims to enable a mobile ad-hoc communication infrastructure in the future by enabling unmanned systems to place relays in an area in a way that is adapted to the situation. To this end, new methods are being developed to generate a multifactorial situation picture for deployment scenarios in which large-scale communication and navigation services are not available.
Disruptive Risk Research
The programme is developing self-organizing autonomous air and land vehicles that can independently close gaps in communication transmission by setting up an ad-hoc infrastructure. In order to implement this efficiently and effectively, the network and the systems organized within it must be able to develop a robust situational picture that goes beyond the factors of localization and positioning. In particular, recording and evaluating the availability, bandwidth and physical properties of communication methods is still a largely unexplored aspect of current robotics and swarm research.