兰德公司2024年新兴技术与风险分析无人机系统智能蜂群技术报告英文版12页

HSACSAAAnFFRDC operatedbytheRANDCorporationunder contractwith DHSHOMELANDSECURITYOPERATIONAL ANALYSISCENTERRESEARCH REPORTDANIEL M. GERSTEIN, ERIN N. LEIDY Emerging Technology and Risk AnalysisUnmanned Aerial Systems Intelligent Swarm TechnologyUnmanned aerial systems (UASs) or drone technologies, both individual systems and swarms of UASs, have proliferated over the past 25 years for a wide variety of applications. As a result, this technol-ogy and the ability to employ these UAS capabilities represent both a current and a growing threat as the technology con-tinues to mature.For this assessment, we delineate drone swarm technology into three cat-egories: (1) multioperator-coordinated groups of individual drones; (2) drones that have been programmed in a coor-dinated manner to fly individually, in a leader-follower configuration, or in multidrone formations with a human operator controlling multiple drones; and (3) intelligent drone swarms that can communicate among individual drones