Duality AI has been awarded a contract from the XM30 Program Office, the US Army’s team building the next generation successor to the M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle.
In response to the escalating threat of drone warfare, the XM30 Advanced Capabilities team is developing a counter-drone AI Target Detection and Recognition (AiTDR) system to safeguard personnel and troops aboard the vehicle. To achieve this goal, the Army’s Project Linchpin team for AI and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities, in coordination with the Army Research Lab (ARL), will use synthetic data generated in simulation from virtual sensors in Duality’s digital twin simulation platform, Falcon.
Employing digital twin simulation at the earliest stages of the AiTDR project will enable the XM30 team to preemptively address major development challenges. With Falcon, the team will generate training data, determine optimal sensor configurations, and test model performance in high-fidelity simulated scenarios.
Duality says that the ARL team will be able to compose and simulate any scenarios they require (any drone, any environment, any visual conditions) and generate the needed data with any of Falcon’s virtual sensors. Using this data, the team will first deliver an AI model that functions while communicating with the Falcon simulator, and then continue to refine the performance of this first-generation algorithm by both improving the model and refining the simulation approach in collaboration with Duality’s AI engineering team. In the latter stages of the project, the team will assess broader applications of digital twin simulation in Falcon for addressing their expanding roster of AI/ML training data needs.
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