Last year I posted here my first result of my AI based autopilot for the Condor simulator.
Here is the next version.
The main addition is the image processing. This detect the plane for automatic towing. Detection of airfield for improve landing. And cloud position and altitude detection.
Future development will focus on better thermaling and ridge flying
https://youtu.be/hjKo4oQ6Wnk
AI autopilot, next version
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alexvinckier
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AI autopilot, next version
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timbaeyens
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Re: AI autopilot, next version
Very cool!
I hope one day you can have your AI fly the same route hundreds of thousands of time in non-real time, so we could learn from its optimisation for RL use.
I hope one day you can have your AI fly the same route hundreds of thousands of time in non-real time, so we could learn from its optimisation for RL use.
TT
Re: AI autopilot, next version
Thats very impressive. This has to be so much harder than it looks and its a bit of shame your talent and work cant be really used.
Have you contacted condor devs to see if they are open to working with you? when you think about it: condor rendering graphics from internal math/models, and your AI interpreting those rendered graphics again to get the data that condor used in the first place. Its really cool that it works, but with your AI integrated in a future version of condor, you wouldnt need the hassle (and compute power) of interpreting rendered graphics, you could get the data directly, Even if just the data that is available to a human pilot, so no hidden information about lift, just where the runway is, where clouds are, where other planes are. It could be used to populate the world with some AI gliders, so off line pilots dont have to feel so alone. Maybe it will be good enough one day to even race offline against AI.
Have you contacted condor devs to see if they are open to working with you? when you think about it: condor rendering graphics from internal math/models, and your AI interpreting those rendered graphics again to get the data that condor used in the first place. Its really cool that it works, but with your AI integrated in a future version of condor, you wouldnt need the hassle (and compute power) of interpreting rendered graphics, you could get the data directly, Even if just the data that is available to a human pilot, so no hidden information about lift, just where the runway is, where clouds are, where other planes are. It could be used to populate the world with some AI gliders, so off line pilots dont have to feel so alone. Maybe it will be good enough one day to even race offline against AI.
