TechTalks Magazine Highlights Neuroflight and It’s Use of AI in Drone Flight
Just this week TechTalks magazine produced a story about artificial intelligence and it’s growing influence on the world of drone flight. A company called Neuroflight has created a system which helps drones maintain stability and balance in changing environmental conditions. Previous technology relied upon mathematical control equations to respond to changes in conditions. Machine learning, on the other hand, uses data samples to develop different behaviors using situations and their corresponding responses. The AI then develops its own representations where it can then react to the different conditions.
Featured in this article is Boston University PhD candidate in Computer Science Wil Koch along with Azer Bestavros, BU Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Hariri Institute for Computing along with Renato Mancuso, BU Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Later in the article, “We don’t have to have any assumptions or knowledge of the actual aircraft we’re training in simulation,” Koch says. “All the artificial neural network needs to know is how many motors it is able to control. It doesn’t need to know anything else and can develop an optimal strategy to control any single aircraft. That is a very powerful technique.”
Will Koch is part of BU Spark! which is housed at the Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University, where it’s mission is to promote discovery and innovations through the use of computational and data-driven approaches.