The Brazilian Army's Instituto Militar de Engenharia has received a first batch of 10 SD10 drones developed with SkyDrones, Tecnodefesa reported. The aircraft were delivered to the institute's artificial intelligence, robotics and cybernetics laboratory, LIARC, for the Dragões de Ricardo Franco drone swarm project.
The drones form part of a prototype system planned to comprise 30 rotary-wing aircraft that act together in a swarm. The system is designed to let a single operator supervise multiple units from a base station for ground force missions.
Researchers at the institute are developing the swarm's artificial intelligence, coordination algorithms and embedded control software. Following the delivery, researchers at LIARC carried out initial flight trials to test algorithms developed in simulation under real operating conditions.
Also reported by Revista Forte
