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UAV Swarm Behavior Modeling for Early Exposure of Failure Modes

Abstract – Over the past decade, the Department of Defense has placed a great amount of attention on the advancements of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and more specifically on employing a large number of autonomous UAVs into “swarms.” These swarms form an organized cluster of vehicles to act out multifaceted operations as a group. Despite

How Things Break (and Why Scientists Want to Know)

Breaking things can help scientists answer both the most elemental and the most everyday questions. Humans spend a lot of time creating things—this drives a huge amount of our lives, economically and personally—and we are always in a fight to keep them from breaking down. Houses, roads, cars. Power lines and bridges. Solar cells and