Intent-Swarm-Commander

A swarm orchestration system translating high-level military intents (SMEAC) into concrete, coordinated multi-drone actions using Temporal workflows and Pydantic-AI agentic systems.

Local Development (Docker Compose)

The entire Intent-Swarm-Commander ecosystem, including the ROS 2 and PX4 Gazebo simulation, can be run locally using Docker Compose without needing physical hardware.

Prerequisites

• Docker Engine
• NVIDIA Container Toolkit (for Gazebo rendering inside Docker)
• X11 or Wayland server running on host (e.g., WSLg on Windows 11)

Quickstart

# Build the containers (this will take 10-20 minutes the first time due to PX4 compilation)
docker compose build

# Start the environment
docker compose up -d

# Verify services
docker compose ps

Accessing the Ecosystem

• Dashboard: http://localhost:8080
• Backend API: http://localhost:8000
• Edge Node API: http://localhost:8090
• Temporal Server (gRPC): localhost:7233
• Gazebo Simulation: The 3D physics window will appear on your host machine automatically.

Running a Simulation End-to-End

1. Open the Dashboard.
2. Submit a SMEAC order via the web UI.
3. Observe the edge node API logs: docker compose logs -f edge_drone
4. Watch the Gazebo drone take off and maneuver according to the generated swarm intent.