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Jindivik (1948–1986)Target Drone

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Global HawkStrategic Reconaissance

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PredatorHunter-Killer

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Hobbyist 'Micro-Drones'Surveillance

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Military 'Micro-Drones'Tactical Reconnaisance

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'Nano-Drones'

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Drone Swarms

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Submersible Drones ?

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Some Failures

• First UK law enforcement useLost in the Mersey River off Liverpool (BBC 2011)

• First Australian media use Lost off Christmas Island (Corcoran 2012)

• First US police-owned drone, in TexasCrashed into a police vehicle (Biddle 2012)

• In South Korea, a drone crashed into its control truck, killing 1, and injuring 2 'remote' pilots (Marks 2012)

• Micro-drones in CBDsAuckland (Mortimer 2012), Sydney (Kontominas 2013)

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Drones

Roger ClarkeXamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, Canberra

Visiting Professor in Computer Science, ANU, CanberraVisiting Professor in Cyberspace Law & Policy, UNSW, Sydney

http://www.rogerclarke.com/SOS/Drones {-E, -I, -RPS, -RBP} .html

ANU Summer Scholar Series27 November 2013

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What Technical Challenges?

• Scalability of safeguards• To achieve low cost, compromise

what?

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What Technical Challenges?

• Scalability of safeguards• To achieve low cost, compromise

what?

• How much autonomy?Stability, obstruction-avoidance, flight-path

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What Technical Challenges?• Scalability of safeguards• To achieve low cost, compromise what?

• How much autonomy?Stability, obstruction-avoidance, flight-path

• Reliance on data-feeds, control-feeds• Protection of data-feeds, control-feeds• Fail-Safe / Fail-Soft means what exactly?

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What Technical Challenges?• Scalability of safeguards• To achieve low cost, compromise what?

• How much autonomy?Stability, obstruction-avoidance, flight-path

• Reliance on data-feeds, control-feeds• Protection of data-feeds, control-feeds• Fail-Safe / Fail-Soft means what exactly?

• Fly as a Swarm or Flock, how exactly?

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What Policy Challenges

• What Uses?• What new Risks arise?

What existing Risks are significantly exacerbated?

Public Safety – accidents, violenceBehavioral Privacy

• What Regulatory Framework applies?• Is the regulatory framework appropriate?

(large, small, micro, nano, swarms)• Is the regulatory framework being adapted?