Robo-warship sub hunter
8th April 2011
No doubt regular readers will recall the US military’s cunning plan to develop unmanned submarine-hunting robotic frigates – warships which would prowl the oceans like automated Mary Celestes, remorselessly tracking enemy submarines regardless of how their pale, sweaty, malodorous captains might twist and turn.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, it has been decided that the best way to hammer out a set of tactics for ACTUVs is to develop a game-style simulation pitting ACTUV against submarine and get people to play it – so crowdsourcing the methods and tactical principles that will then be coded into the robo-frigates’ AIs.