Collaborative-autonomy software applications allow a group of networked devices to collaboratively detect, gather, identify and interpret data; defend against cyber-attacks; and continue to operate despite infiltration.
(Download Image)Skywing: Open-source software aids collaborative autonomy applications
A new software developed at LLNL, and known as Skywing, provides domain scientists working to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure with a high-reliability, real-time software platform for collaborative autonomy applications. The U.S. modern critical infrastructure—from the electrical grid that sends power to homes to the pipelines that deliver water and natural gas and the railways and roadways we travel—is full of digitized components. To defend against cyber-attacks and harden the system, multidisciplinary teams of mathematicians, systems analysts, power engineers, cybersecurity experts, and computational scientists have turned to collaborative autonomy—a new class of computational techniques that teach networked devices how to self-organize into a collective whole. Skywing is an open-source, high-reliability, real-time, decentralized software platform for domain scientists, mathematicians, and computer scientists exploring collaborative autonomy applications for critical infrastructure. Skywing provides approaches and solutions for real-world applications that solve problems and allow for confidence in the results. It also helps lower the barrier to entry for those who may lack fluency in decentralized software development. Read more at LLNL News.
