A transatlantic perspective on 20 emerging issues in biological engineering

Advances in biological engineering are likely to have substantial impacts on global society. To explore these potential impacts we ran a horizon scanning exercise to capture a range of perspectives on the opportunities and risks presented by biological engineering. We first identified 70 potential issues, and then used an iterative process to prioritise 20 issues that we considered to be emerging, to have potential global impact, and to be relatively unknown outside the field of biological engineering. The issues identified may be of interest to researchers, businesses and policy makers in sectors such as health, energy, agriculture and the environment

Team 8: Combat Identification and Fratricide:A Human Affair

from Scythe : Proceedings and Bulletin of the International Data Farming Community, Issue 4 Workshop 16Over the past two years TNO and Dstl developed an Agent Based Combat ID Model to support the research on factors influencing the success and failure of Combat Identification processes. During the International Data farming Workshop (IDFW) 15 in Singapore, we evaluated this model by conducting the first data farming experiments. The model represents Situation Awareness (SA) and the cognitive processes to combine new sensor input with SA in order to make identification decisions. A description of the model and the results of the Singapore experiments can be found in [ref 1].Representing Urban Culture Geography in Stability Operations concerns the representation of the civilian population in a conflict environment. This working group used a scenario developed for Pythagoras and a scenario developed for a prototype multi-agent system model of the civilian population to explore the response of the civilian population to insurgent, government and stability force actions in a counterinsurgency environment. The working group also examined potential measures of merit from recent work by an irregular warfare modeling and analysis working grou

Chairs on the Dock

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Art Block: City of Angels

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dstl/Stone-Soup: v1.2

<p><!-- Release notes generated using configuration in .github/release.yml at main --></p> <h2>What's Changed</h2> <h3>Breaking changes</h3> <ul> <li><p>Change how sensor parameters are passed to action generators by @nperree-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/901</p> <ul> <li><em>ActionableProperty</em> has a <code>generator_kwargs_mapping</code> dictionary to map properties of the <em>ActionGenerator</em> to properties of the <em>Sensor</em>, allowing them to be set via the sensor. This means the previous method for setting resolutions has been modified to use this.<ul> <li>Fix: for <em>RadarRotatingBearingRange</em>, set <code>resolution=resolution_value</code> instead of <code>resolutions=dict()</code></li> <li>When creating a new sensor with an <em>ActionableProperty</em>, use the <code>generator_kwargs_mapping</code> to map sensor properties to <em>ActionGenerator</em> properties where required.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><p>Sensor management with actionable movables by @akenyon in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/943</p> <ul> <li>Sensor managers now take a set of sensors and a set of platforms so positional arguments order has changed<ul> <li>Fix: set <code>reward_function</code> using kwargs (e.g. <code>reward_function=…</code>)</li> </ul> </li> <li>Import locations have changed for the base classes <em>Action</em>, <em>ActionGenerator</em>, <em>Actionable</em> and <em>ActionableProperty</em>.<ul> <li>Fix: import all from new location, <code>stonesoup.sensormanager.action</code></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3>Implemented enhancements</h3> <ul> <li>Add metric MultiManager and MetricPlotter by @rcgorman-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/811</li> <li>Introduce ability to constrain particle states in ParticleUpdater and MCMCRegulariser by @timothy-glover in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/855</li> <li>Bool to return reward for BruteForce and Optimise sensor managers by @asaunders-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/851</li> <li>Resampling dependant regularisation in ParticleUpdater by @timothy-glover in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/869</li> <li>Minor Addition and Changes to MultiMeasurementInitiator by @gawebb-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/835</li> <li>Adding greedy sensor manager by @akenyon in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/874</li> <li>Add GaussianMixtureInitiator, ASDGaussianInitiator and EnsembleInitiator by @csherman-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/873</li> <li>Function to linearly interpolate state mutable sequences by @gawebb-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/872</li> <li>Update Animated Plotter Example by @mharris-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/857</li> <li>Introduce Kullback-Leibler Divegence measure and reward function by @timothy-glover in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/868</li> <li>New Recursive updaters added by @spike-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/859</li> <li>Polar Plotting by @gawebb-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/796</li> <li>One to One Track Association by @gawebb-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/624</li> <li>Azimuth elevation range model by @Carlson-J in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/880</li> <li>Introduce grid based action generators and actionable movable classes by @timothy-glover in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/892</li> <li>Create IsotropicPlume model and gas sensor by @timothy-glover in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/850</li> <li>Adapted the square root components by @jmbarr in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/916</li> <li>Shorten sensor management tutorials' simulation length by @mharris-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/918</li> <li>Adding setting title functionality to AnimationPlotter by @jswright-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/919</li> <li>Add convert measurement parameter to TwoDPlotter by @jswright-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/909</li> <li>Added the switching term to GOSPA. by @Carlson-J in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/898</li> <li>Add support for Python 3.12 by @sdhiscocks in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/925</li> <li>Simplify (or at least make more standard) control models by @jmbarr in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/927</li> <li>Tidy plotter initialisation and remove rectangle zoom restriction. by @mharris-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/934</li> <li>Dynamically Iterated EKF by @spike-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/891</li> <li>Add 3D plotting option to Plotterly by @mharris-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/932</li> <li>Error-Controller BRUF and Variable-Step BRUF by @spike-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/914</li> </ul> <h3>Fixed bugs</h3> <ul> <li>Corrected update equation in Kalman tutorial by @jmbarr in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/866</li> <li>Add conv measurements option to AnimatedPlotterly by @mharris-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/856</li> <li>Fix track to track associations type by @sdhiscocks in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/870</li> <li>Change return type and add track ID metadata to Track2GaussianDetectionFeeder by @sdhiscocks in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/871</li> <li>Fix to RecursiveEnsembleUpdater by @spike-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/885</li> <li>Correct UKF kappa default to match documentation by @sdhiscocks in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/905</li> <li>Modify Ensemble state generation and initiator test thresholds by @sdhiscocks in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/902</li> <li>Change StatePrediction and StateUpdate by @jswright-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/906</li> <li>Fix bug in GridActionGenerator by @nperree-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/917</li> <li>Fix error handling for 3d in Plotterly and add tests by @mharris-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/931</li> <li>Fix plugins for latest versions of Python by @sdhiscocks in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/956</li> <li>Fix incorrect transition model being used in Kalman Smoothers by @sdhiscocks in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/945</li> <li>Fix calculation of cross-covariance in unscented_transform @sglvladi in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/963</li> <li>Fixing bug which causes multiplication by Probability to return a Probability @jmbarr in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/912</li> </ul> <h3>Documentation updates</h3> <ul> <li>Remove plot style in GMPHD tutorial to fix docs build by @sdhiscocks in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/867</li> <li>Improve example documentation by @mharris-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/840</li> <li>Example of Bearing-only tracking by @A-acuto in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/823</li> <li>Modify track fusion example to use tee and plot longest track by @sdhiscocks in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/882</li> <li>Update copyright year by @jswright-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/920</li> <li>Make sensor management tutorials flake-8 compliant by @mharris-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/926</li> <li>Make Metrics Example Flake8 Compliant by @mharris-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/928</li> <li>Reinforcement Learning Sensor Manager Example by @sgboakes in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/886</li> <li>change reference to correct one by @avcuenes in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/938</li> <li>Correct deleter property documentation by @jswright-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/950</li> <li>Add an example showing performance differences between JPDA and EHM by @A-acuto in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/861</li> <li>Fix unused variable in Comparing Multiple Trackers example by @sdhiscocks in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/959</li> </ul> <h3>Other changes</h3> <ul> <li>change unequal timesteps in animated plotter from error to warning by @mharris-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/904</li> <li>Move sphinx gallery line in tutorial 10 by @mharris-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/924</li> <li>NumPy 2 compatibility by @sdhiscocks in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/929</li> <li>Ignore Sphinx Gallery execution times file by @sdhiscocks in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/947</li> <li>Avoid test collection failure with optional dependency astropy by @sdhiscocks in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/955</li> <li>Add pyehm plugin as optional tests by @sdhiscocks in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/957</li> <li>Added Version Requirement for Plotly by @gawebb-dstl in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/958</li> <li>Add GitHub release notes config by @sdhiscocks in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/960</li> </ul> <h2>New Contributors</h2> <ul> <li>@asaunders-dstl made their first contribution in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/851</li> <li>@akenyon made their first contribution in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/874</li> <li>@csherman-dstl made their first contribution in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/873</li> <li>@Carlson-J made their first contribution in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/880</li> <li>@avcuenes made their first contribution in https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/pull/938</li> </ul> <p><strong>Full Changelog</strong>: https://github.com/dstl/Stone-Soup/compare/v1.1...v1.2</p&gt