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labyrinthine tunnel networkspecializes in underground combat, but even this elite unit could take heavy casualties fighting at close range against suicidal Jihadis. Rather than risking humans, the IDF may send in the drones.A tunnel is about the worst possible place to fly a drone. The confined environment is full of obstacles, and any contact can break a rotor blade and disable the drone.
SLAM is a lot like what humans do instinctively when entering an unfamiliar building: we automatically create a mental picture of the place as we go so we can easily find our way around without needing a map. A drone or robot using SLAM builds a 3D model of its environment and tracks its position within that environment. That means it does not need an external navigation reference like GPS to know where it is, nor a human operator to guide it as it explores.
“As Nova 2 autonomously clears, people are detected and auto-populated on a map…Nova 2 builds 3D multi-story maps, providing an unrivaled common operating picture of the battlefield.” The Legion-X swarm has “adaptive, complex, collective behaviors for intelligent movement, decisions, and interactions with the environment” and is capable fully autonomous operation., to support the drones or act as communication relays to maintain contact with drones deep inside a tunnel complex. A mix types would provide a means of exploring underground, and potentially locating and engaging Hamas fighters.
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