His biggest issue may be causing a collision with another aircraft. -----Original Message----- From: Aus-soaring [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Justin Couch Sent: Monday, 21 December 2015 11:10 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] For the technophiliacs.
On 18/12/2015 6:22 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote: > Also a group at Sydney University I briefly communicated with 3 or 4 > years ago.................so we put these algorithms in to a > microcomputer, hook it to an autopilot and enjoy the ride? > > This is all doable right now. It will be interesting to see if/when the > AI beats a human pilot. One of my workmates is very active in this area. He's working on breaking the distance to goal record, which is currently about 300km. Pretty sophisticated stuff - 4m wingspan glider is the base, mostly arduino for compute power etc. I've been helping him a lot with various aspects of the soaring side - even loaned him copies of the original Riechmann book and Bernard's latest edition. Been talking a lot about soaring theory and what glider pilots look at in the sky and the ground. His biggest issue is compute power on the image processing. Lots of experimentation with thermal processing etc to see if he can detect temperature gradients in the sky to "see" thermals etc. Quite a fascinating project all up, and something that will eventually feed into instrumentation that human pilots can make use of. -- Justin _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
