UnIC: Towards Unmanned Intelligent Cluster and Its Integration into Society

Fubiao Zhang, Jing Yu*, Defu Lin, Jun Zhang

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Collaborative unmanned systems have emerged to meet our society's wide-ranging grand challenges, with their advantages including high performance, efficiency, flexibility, and inherent resilience. Increasing levels of group/team autonomy have also been achieved due to the embodiment of artificial intelligence (AI). However, the current networked unmanned systems are primarily designed for and applicable to a narrow range of domain-specific missions, and do not have sufficient human-level intelligence and human needs fulfillment for the challenging missions in our lives. We propose in this paper a vision of human-centric networked unmanned systems: Unmanned Intelligent Cluster (UnIC). Within this vision, distributed unmanned systems and humans are connected via knowledge sharing and social awareness to achieve collaborative cognition. This paper details UnIC's concept, sources of intelligence, and layered architecture, and reviews enabling technologies for achieving this vision. In addition to the technological aspects, the social acceptance issues are highlighted.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)24-38
Number of pages15
JournalEngineering
Volume12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2022

Keywords

  • Human centric systems
  • Social acceptance
  • Social intelligence
  • Socio–technical systems
  • Unmanned intelligent systems

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