Fecha de publicación: 12/02/2004 Fuente: WIPO "swarm" In a swarm weapon system including mobile robotic vehicles (MRVs), a system, methods and apparatus are described for the use of external resources, including computation and sensor capabilities, to guide groups of MRVs from position to position in real time. Methods are shown whereby external computation resources provide massive supplementary computing capability to a remote computing network to solve complex problems on the fly that preserves limited intra-systemic power and computation resources. Methods are shown for external sensors, such as satellite sensors, to provide supplemental sensor data to a multi robotic system with resource constraints.