Robots could auto-complete soldiers' task on the battlefield in future, thanks to AI

US scientists are working on artificial intelligence (AI) systems that could help robots assist soldiers on battlefield in future. As part of new study, team of researchers examined soldiers' brain activity during certain tasks and objectives. This way, researchers are training AI systems to help soldiers dynamically finish ir tasks and responsibilities.

According to a senior neuroscientist at Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in US, Jean Vettel, techlogies predict states and behaviours of soldiers may help build a more optimised team.

work between University at Buffalo and ARL is looking at how dynamics and architecture of human brain may be synchronised to predict such behaviours and consequently optimise team performance.

"In military operations, soldiers perform multiple tasks at once. y're analysing information from multiple sources, navigating environments while simultaneously assessing threats, sharing situational awareness, and communicating with a distributed team,"  said Vettel. 

"This requires soldiers to constantly switch among se tasks, which means that brain is also rapidly shifting among different brain regions needed for se different tasks," he said.

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"If we can use brain data in moment to indicate what task y're doing, AI could dynamically respond and apt to assist Soldier in completing task," he ded.

To accomplish this, researchers first tried to understand how brain coordinates its different regions while working a specific task. Researchers relied upon a computational approach to understand how this may be characterised to inform behavioural prediction.

In order to finish study, scientists mapped how different regions of brain were connected in 30 different individuals via tracts of tissue called white matter. 

Scientists turned se maps into computational models of each subject's brain and used computers to duplicate effect of what would happen when a single region of a person's brain was stimulated.

Scientists also me use of a mamatical framework to measure how brain activity coordinated with different cognitive systems in simulations.

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"While work has been deployed on individual brains of a finite brain structure, it would be very interesting to see if coordination of Soldiers and automous systems may also be described with this method, too," said Javier Garcia, an ARL neuroscientist. 

"Much how brain coordinates regions that carry out specific functions, you can think of how this method may describe coordinated teams of individuals and automous systems of varied skills work toger to complete a mission," Garcia said.

(With PTI inputs)