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US Navy seeks new tactics for combat drone era

As combat drones continue to move from the laboratory to the battlefield, the US Navy is exploring how to use a digitally ...
The Aviationist

U.S. Navy Continues BQM-177 Target Drone Demos with Hivemind AI

The U.S. Navy demonstrated the manned-unmanned teaming capabilities of BQM-177s using Shield AI’s Hivemind software in a simulated CCA air combat ...
Defense One

Lightning Lab gives Pacific Army division drone-building capabilities on the front lines

Tucked away in the converted storage room of a former movie theater, a handful of soldiers are producing drones by the dozen ...

Ukrainian drone attack in Russia kills 1 following Moscow’s intense bombardment

A Ukrainian drone strike killed one person and wounded three others in the Russian city of Voronezh, local officials said ...

I flew drones on Ukraine's fiercest battlefield. The last few months laid bare the limits of today's drone warfare.

Sgt. Dimko Zhluktenko, a commander of a drone team, told Business Insider what it was like flying in the heavy fog that ...
IEEE

Improving Drone Racing Performance Through Iterative Learning MPC

Abstract: Autonomous drone racing presents a challenging control problem, requiring real-time decision-making and robust handling of nonlinear system dynamics. While iterative learning model ...
The Aviationist

An Overview of the U.S. Army’s New Training Helicopter Competition

Bell, M1 and Lockheed Martin have been selected for the next phase of the U.S. Army’s Flight School Next competition. Let’s ...
IEEE

GRaD-Nav: Efficiently Learning Visual Drone Navigation with Gaussian Radiance Fields and Differentiable Dynamics

Abstract: Autonomous visual navigation is an essential element in robot autonomy. Reinforcement learning (RL) offers a promising policy training paradigm. However, existing RL methods suffer from high ...