Six Weeks to Sea: Hivemind Brings Thunder Tiger’s SeaSharks Together

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As an island nation, maritime awareness is essential to Taiwan’s national security. Its coastline stretches more than 1,500 kilometers across the main island and outlying islands, so keeping watch over the surrounding waters requires vessels, sensors, and operators spread over a wide area. Autonomous unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) can extend surveillance, but adding more USVs also means operators spend more time telling each vessel what to do. Hivemind is Shield AI’s mission autonomy software that enables unmanned systems to see, think, and act with minimal human input. Most autonomous USVs today focus on individual platform functions, such as navigating along a predefined route, but Hivemind is different. Hivemind is built to manage the mission itself, including how multiple vessels work together as conditions change. Shield AI and Thunder Tiger Corp., a Taiwan-based manufacturer of unmanned systems, partnered to demonstrate this capability, integrating Hivemind aboard Thunder Tiger’s SeaShark 600 and SeaShark 800 USVs. - Progressed from initial software integration to a live maritime demonstration in only six weeks

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