Battlefield Swarm Say, from here the soldiers look like ants ... Strategic Simulations, Inc./University of Granada From Popular Science:
The Spanish army is using ant colony algorithms to plot the best paths through future battlefields.
Moving through real-life battlefields inevitably proves trickier than playing a game of Minesweeper, but Spanish researchers and army officers have converted the video game Panzer General into a simulator that can test troop maneuver algorithms based on ant colony behavior.
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In fact, some maps were taken from PG, and transformed the way you feature them on the image, but the simulator was built from scratch. Of course, moving, at least at the individual level, is trickier, but the first phase of any battle manoeuver is motion from starting point to combat position, and that's what we were simulating in this work.
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