{"id":18247,"date":"2023-12-17T01:59:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T20:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18247"},"modified":"2025-04-05T09:42:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T04:12:40","slug":"swarm-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/swarm-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Swarm Drones?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Swarm Drones<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>SWARM stands for \u201cSmart War-Fighting Array of Reconfigured Modules.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A Swarm Drone typically\u00a0consists of multiple drones working in coordination,\u00a0communicating with one another, and\u00a0sharing\u00a0information\u00a0to achieve a common objective.<\/li>\n<li>These drones\u00a0can be of the same or different types, ranging from small quadcopters to larger fixed-wing drones.<\/li>\n<li>The swarm\u2019s strength lies in its ability to\u00a0function as a collective unit,\u00a0leveraging swarm intelligence algorithms and advanced software to operate seamlessly and efficiently.<\/li>\n<li>These drones are\u00a0equipped with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and\u00a0can communicate with each other\u00a0as well as\u00a0with the control station.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>All the\u00a0individual drones work in unison to complete tasks\u00a0using distributed coordination, with each communication sent out by one drone providing the others with up-to-date information about their environment and roles in the mission.<\/li>\n<li>As their\u00a0commands are based on real-time data, these\u00a0swarms react quickly and precisely\u00a0to changes in their surroundings.<\/li>\n<li>Because of the large number of drones that may be members of a drone swarm technology, the\u00a0swarm as a whole and individual drones can exercise great autonomy\u00a0in seeking and\u00a0engaging targets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?<\/h3>\n<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) is a wide-ranging branch of computer science concerned with building smart machines capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence.Artificial intelligence allows machines to model, or even improve upon, the capabilities of the human mind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribuneindia.com\/news\/india\/iaf-requires-three-systems-to-protect-bases-from-attack-by-multiple-swarm-drones-572555#top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>IAF requires three systems to protect bases from attack by multiple swarm drones<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Swarm Drone typically consists of multiple drones working in coordination and sharing information with one another to achieve a common objective. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}