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This paper describes a Concept of Operations (ConOps) for a counter-swarm scenario in which the defender side uses a swarm of drones to defend a target against an attacking drone swarm. A ConOps is a high-level conceptual description of how the elements of a system and entities in its environment interact in order to achieve their stated goals. It has shown to be a useful and integrative element in designing complex technical systems. The ConOps for a counter-swarm scenario presented in this paper will provide answers, among others, to the following questions: how the two drone swarms are deployed, how a scenario is introduced to the simulation system, and how its progress is monitored and supervised. A preliminary version of the ConOps for a counter-swarm scenario was drafted through by using a counter-swarm simulator and conducting discussions and interviews with military experts of the Finnish Defence Forces.
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This research was funded by the Scientific Advisory Board for Defence (MATINE) in the CounterSwarm project. In addition, the Academy of Finland is acknowledged for part of the financial support from the project ‘Finnish UAV Ecosystem’ (FUAVE, project grant number 337878).
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Laarni, J., Väätänen, A., Karvonen, H., Lastusilta, T., Saffre, F. (2022). Development of a Concept of Operations for a Counter-Swarm Scenario. In: Harris, D., Li, WC. (eds) Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13307. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06086-1_4
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