Entries by TAS

Collaborating to build a better domestic and international regulatory environment for innovative autonomous vessels

By Rachel Horne, Assurance of Autonomy Activity Lead, Trusted Autonomous Systems (TAS) Domestic and international engagement is key for understanding different regulatory, environmental, and operational contexts; providing lessons in how we might approach some of our own challenges; facilitating future collaboration; and accelerating the operationalisation of autonomous vessels nationally and internationally. In June 2022 TAS […]

High altitude technologies taking off in Queensland!

On Friday 22 July in a large exhibition hall in Brisbane, an innovative Queensland company, DanField Stratoship undertook a demonstration inflation of a stratospheric air ship. The demonstration was organised by Trusted Autonomous Systems, a Defence Cooperative Research Centre in conjunction with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Air Warfare Centre (AWC), and as part […]

Who is liable when an autonomous military drone causes unintended harms?

By Dr Brendan Walker-Munro, Law and Future of War Research Group, The University of Queensland Suppose that the ADF procures an autonomous airborne drone (‘drone’) for delivery of goods whilst deployed during humanitarian operations overseas. The drone is unarmed but carries sensors capable of determining if it is under attack and can take evasive action. […]