CHASS brings together Sweden’s leading expertise from Linköping, Lund and Örebro universities in AI, autonomous systems, computer vision, communication, control, aeronautics, material science, manufacturing engineering, human-AI teamning and AI governance, with strategic industrial and societal partners.
With CHASS we establish an internationally leading research center
The center is paired with an innovation ecosystem that accelerates the transition from single-drone operations to truly intelligent, adaptive, sustainable and trustworthy swarm systems of strategic importance to Sweden.
To maximize impact beyond academia, CHASS is committed to releasing core technologies as open-source software. An integration program validates research through increasingly complex demonstrations at established Swedish test sites. We aim to establish Swedish leadership in this emerging field and enabling broad adaptation across research and industry.
CHASS initially focuses on:
- Develop a SwarmOS enabling hardware-agnostic operations with autonomous coordination and decision-making.
- Create sustainable, modular drone platforms with distributed manufacturing
- Advance human-swarm interaction for effective collaborations
- Address ethical, legal and societal implications.
The CHASS funding of 60 million SEK comes from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research SSF.
