In simple terms, systems that can act with their own abilities and intelligence without the need for a router is called autonomous systems. Autonomous unmanned systems which become extremely popular in recent years, developed rapidly especially in the field of unmanned aerial vehicle. We can observe that the R&D activities in developed and developing countries has increased in the field of unmanned systems. Many variations of unmanned systems have been developed especially in defense industry. The concept of unmanned aerial vehicles that move in flock are one of these variations. It is one of the biggest advantage of countries in defense industry.
The systems that more than one autonomous unmanned systems move together by using a network protocol is called swarm autonomous unmanned systems. These systems can move together via local network or satellite control systems.
If we give an example of unmanned aerial vehicles; swarm autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle systems are consisting of two autonomous vehicles as “master” and “slave”. They can move full autonomous or semi-autonomous. We can think that the master is leader of the swarm system. Slaves are the other members of swarm member of vehicles that execute the commands of master vehicle.
In an unmanned aerial vehicle swarm system operates in full autonomous mode, the master type unmanned aerial vehicle transmits the data obtained from deep learning, machine learning or AI technology by using common communication protocol. Therefore, swarm movement obtained. Also, there must be a control station in autonomous unmanned systems. The system can be guided remotely with this station by using telemetry data device. In autonomous systems with swarm intelligence, this telemetry information directed to master type vehicle for guidance through exchange system. After that, slave type vehicles follow master type vehicle. This system is called semi-autonomous swarm systems.
The studies in communication security in rapidly growing swarm autonomous vehicle systems is still going on in our country and in world. Swarm autonomous systems are expected to be favorite among the countries defense industries with the increase in communication security.
