TY - JOUR

T1 - Pervasive Intelligence

T2 - The Tempo-Spatiality of Drone Swarms

AU - Vehlken, Sebastian

N1 - Ramón Reichert / Mathias Fuchs / Pablo Abend / Annika Richterich / Karin Wenz (eds.) Digital Culture & Society (DCS) Vol. 4, Issue 1/2018 – Rethinking AI: Neural Networks, Biometrics and the New Artificial Intelligence

PY - 2018/8/22

Y1 - 2018/8/22

N2 - This article seeks to situate collective or swarm robotics (SR) on a conceptual pane which on the one hand sheds light on the peculiar form of AI which is at play in such systems, whilst on the other hand it considers possible consequences of a widespread use of SR with a focus on swarms of Unmanned Aerial Systems (Swarm UAS). The leading hypothesis of this article is that Swarm Robotics create a multifold “spatial intelligence”, ranging from the dynamic morphologies of such collectives via their robust self-organization in changing environments to representations of these environments as distributed 4D-sensor systems. As is shown on the basis of some generative examples from the field of UAS, robot swarms are imagined to literally penetrate space and control it. In contrast to classical forms of surveillance or even “sousveillance”, this procedure could be called perveillance.

AB - This article seeks to situate collective or swarm robotics (SR) on a conceptual pane which on the one hand sheds light on the peculiar form of AI which is at play in such systems, whilst on the other hand it considers possible consequences of a widespread use of SR with a focus on swarms of Unmanned Aerial Systems (Swarm UAS). The leading hypothesis of this article is that Swarm Robotics create a multifold “spatial intelligence”, ranging from the dynamic morphologies of such collectives via their robust self-organization in changing environments to representations of these environments as distributed 4D-sensor systems. As is shown on the basis of some generative examples from the field of UAS, robot swarms are imagined to literally penetrate space and control it. In contrast to classical forms of surveillance or even “sousveillance”, this procedure could be called perveillance.

KW - Digital media

KW - Cultural studies

UR - https://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/d4/eb/be/ts4266_1.pdf

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/7e43d598-6a7a-3a8b-bdd1-ead98dbf6133/

U2 - 10.14361/dcs-2018-0108

DO - 10.14361/dcs-2018-0108

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 4

SP - 107

EP - 132

JO - Digital Culture & Society

JF - Digital Culture & Society

SN - 2364-2114

IS - 1

ER -