AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – organisation of a technological challenge"
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Scope:
The automatic analysis of tactical situations using fleets of robots, drones and AI is an important research topic that lacks standardised benchmarks and objective evaluation campaigns.
This call topic aims to set up a testing environment and organise a technological challenge in which research teams will participate, supported by another topic (EDF-2024-LS-RA-CHALLENGE-DIGIT-AISAP-STEP) and possibly other sources of funding. The testing environment should enable objective comparisons between different approaches. Data should be collected during field tests, annotated and shared to enable the validation of the system performances based on precise evaluation criteria and plans, to be provided as part of the call document.
Targeted types of activities: Integrating knowledge, not excluding upstream and downstream activities eligible for research actions.
Indicative budget: EUR 7 000 000 for this topic under the EDF-2026-LS-RA-CHALLENGE call.
Indicative number of proposals to be funded: One proposal is to be funded for this topic.
- Status
- Open
- Deadline
- (time not stated)
- Opens
- Published
- Country
- European Union (EU-wide)
- Programme
- European Defence Fund (EDF)
- Official page
- Open at the source portal
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Where this came from
- Source document
- https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/data/topicDetails/edf-2026-ls-ra-challenge-digit-aisao.json
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