AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – organisation of a technological challenge
Pays a contractor to build and run a shared testing environment where other teams' AI-and-robot tactical-awareness research gets evaluated.
AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – organisation of a technological challenge is a single-stage European Defence Fund Lump Sum call that pays a contractor to build and run a shared, standardised testing environment where research teams — funded through a companion topic — can run objective, comparable field tests of AI-driven tactical awareness systems…
The Commission wants a standardised testing environment and technological challenge that lets teams compare AI-driven tactical awareness systems built from small robot and drone swarms, since the field currently lacks common benchmarks. It's looking for a setup that lets research teams — funded through a companion topic — run objective, comparable field tests, with the resulting data collected, annotated and shared against precise evaluation criteria.
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