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Convoy protection by self-organized teams of UAVs

A major characteristic of combat is the need to quickly adapt to new situations. Providing support and protection for a convoy is challenging since it requires coordination between the different participants to efficiently allocate the protecting resources. In a combat situation, such as when the convoy is under attack, forces have no spare time to spend. Every second is extremely valuable, and context switching between different tasks is not desirable. Moreover, decision making in a stressful situation, such as combat, tends to be far from efficient. Another aspect that is central to distributed combat is the requirement to keep communication usage as low as possible so that the adversary cannot apply electronic warfare technologies to intercept messages and introduce interference that would disallow distributed collaboration. Another reason is that by reducing the amount of unmanned air vehicle (UAV) communication we provide more reliable communication bandwidth for urgent needs.