MarcGr
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Hi all!
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What features should a smart flight-controller have?
An example I came up with is flying waypoints with a glider, using autonomous thermal flight.
Combined with a small swarm of gliders, this should work quite well.
What are your idea's on this?
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I'm a AI-student from Groningen, the Netherlands,
with a passion for flying and building machine learning programs.
So for a thesis project, I was planning to build an AI for rc-airplanes.
So, I was wondering, what should an airplane be able to do?
Regular flight controllers can do waypoint navigation, and have 'return to home' features, which is nice.
Though if you fantasize a bit, a rc-airplane resembles a bird a lot more than a Cessna, or 747..
So with the ingenuity of the RC-community, there are a lot of possibilities.
I was thinking of a smart glider, being able to thermal, combined with waypoint flying.
Basically the same setting as a glider challenge for real gliders. Sharing thermal info between multiple gliders
might give some nice robustness to this.
Other work I found:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU0WDWV6au8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qah8oIzCwk
I love to here your thoughts on the topic, or possible experiences!
Cheers,
--- tl;dr:
What features should a smart flight-controller have?
An example I came up with is flying waypoints with a glider, using autonomous thermal flight.
Combined with a small swarm of gliders, this should work quite well.
What are your idea's on this?
--- end tl;dr
I'm a AI-student from Groningen, the Netherlands,
with a passion for flying and building machine learning programs.
So for a thesis project, I was planning to build an AI for rc-airplanes.
So, I was wondering, what should an airplane be able to do?
Regular flight controllers can do waypoint navigation, and have 'return to home' features, which is nice.
Though if you fantasize a bit, a rc-airplane resembles a bird a lot more than a Cessna, or 747..
So with the ingenuity of the RC-community, there are a lot of possibilities.
I was thinking of a smart glider, being able to thermal, combined with waypoint flying.
Basically the same setting as a glider challenge for real gliders. Sharing thermal info between multiple gliders
might give some nice robustness to this.
Other work I found:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU0WDWV6au8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qah8oIzCwk
I love to here your thoughts on the topic, or possible experiences!
Cheers,