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Unmanned Swarming Boats Show Teamwork In Test, ONR Says

By Marc Selinger

Wednesday, December 14th, 2016

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Unmanned Swarming Boats Show Teamwork In Test, ONR Says

A Navy autonomous swarm boat developed by the Office of Naval Research. Photo: U.S. Navy

A recent demonstration by the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR) showed that unmanned surface vessels (USVs) can operate as a team, ONR officials said Dec. 14.During the “Swarm2” harbor-protection demonstration, which took place in September on the lower Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, four unmanned patrol boats shared a common picture of an area. They then performed “task allocation,” in which they worked together to figure out which boat would do what to accomplish their mission as a team,…

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