EU Defense Hackathon in Linköping

• Develop autonomous systems that can navigate and operate without relying on GPS or other GNSS signals.
• Solutions may use onboard sensors, real-time perception, sensor fusion, quantum sensors or other resilient navigation methods.
• Relevant for situations where positioning signals are jammed, spoofed, unavailable or unreliable.

• Develop drone, robot or multi-agent systems that can collaborate to complete missions with minimal human control.
• Solutions may address coordination, task allocation, mapping, search and rescue, target tracking or resilient communication between autonomous units.
• The challenge focuses on making groups of autonomous systems act effectively as one coordinated capability.

TBD

• Likely in relation to visualization of asset management of multiple distributed platforms.

Participants retain ownership of the intellectual property they develop during the hackathon.

If a solution is developed by a team, the team members are responsible for agreeing internally how any intellectual property rights are shared between them.

Teams may also choose to make their work open source or license it in another way, provided they have the right to do so and respect any third-party rights, tools, code, datasets or libraries used in their solution.

The EUDIS Defence Hackathon is an instrument enabled by the European Defence Fund (EDF) to strengthen defence innovation in the European Union. It aims to bring together the brightest minds across Europe to collaborate on key challenges related to defence, cybersecurity, and resilience.

The hackathon takes place simultaneously in eight European countries – Austria, Cyprus, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Portugal, and Sweden.

robin.eriksson@linkopingsciencepark.se