The DARPA OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) research team have successfully completed its fourth test using swarms of autonomous air and ground vehicles at the Leschi Town Combined Arms Collective Training Facility (CACTF), located at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) in Washington. These vehicles took part in a multi-stage, interactive scenario to locate and secure multiple simulated items of interest relevant to the urban operational scenario.
The commanders of these swarms decided on their approach by first dertermining their capabilities as well as the strategies and tactics available at their disposal. Next, they used real-time swarm data and scenario analysis provided by the DARPA experimentation team after each run to extract insights from each mission and generate new strategies to improve their following test runs, in addition to future development of this technology.
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The Swarm Systems Integrators have been steadily improving their capabilities, each approaching the testing scenarios in unique ways. Being able to test large-scale swarms in complex urban environments will allow us to extract new insights into the best ways to use a swarm, especially as our field tests increase in size, complexity, and duration,” said Timothy Chung, the OFFSET program manager in DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office (TTO).
