The autonomous Airbus plane takes off, flies and lands by itself. He already has 500 flight hours
Very important news for the aviation industry. Airbus has just completed the test phase of its autonomous aircraft piloting system. The Airbus computer pilot has already completed over 500 test flights. Passenger planes are already packed with systems that are largely able to relieve and in many situations even replace a human pilot. There is still a bit of a lack of full autonomy and computer-controlled flights from start to finish. Autonomous Airbus Or rather – it was missing. The new system developed by Airbus and tested on board the A350-1000 XWB relies heavily on image recognition technology. This information does not reveal much, but we can guess that the image recognition technology mentioned above is based on machine learning algorithms, which each year are getting better at visual identification and learning the world. In practice, it looks something like this: the algorithm has full access to the aircraft’s on-board computer (including its control systems) and, based o...