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AI-Based Tactical Situational Awareness Using Robot and Drone Swarms – Technological Challenge

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This EU grant funds the organization of a technological challenge and testing environment for evaluating AI systems that analyze tactical situations using fleets of robots and drones, with standardized benchmarks and objective evaluation criteria. Research teams, including companies, can participate by developing and demonstrating their approaches against established performance metrics.

Part of call: Research actions in the form of a technological challenge implemented via lump sum grants

About this call

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.

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