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Shield AI Hivemind simulator

I developed the simulator shown in Shield AI’s Hivemind fixed-wing demo. Hivemind is Shield AI’s autonomy software for military and commercial aircraft.

Company
Shield AI
Role
Principal AI and Simulation Engineer
Since
2018
Video
2021

The demo

According to Shield AI’s description of the video, Hivemind uses planning, mapping and state estimation to fly dynamic maneuvers, and reinforcement learning to discover tactics. It is designed to run on the aircraft in environments where GPS and communications are degraded.

The flight shown in the video runs in the simulator I developed.

Related work

My work at Shield AI since 2018 also covers:

  • Synthetic datasets for training machine learning models, and virtual environments for training robots
  • Scalable robot-swarm simulation with Unreal Engine, PX4 and ROS
  • Autonomous agents for tactical mission planning, scenario generation and concept-of-operations environments

In 2018 Shield AI interviewed me about the overlap between games and AI.