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Message: [QUOTE="Resasi, post: 10548040, member: 115492"] Britain’s Loyal Wingman will be a seriously advanced project, building the drone itself not quite so problematical as the ‘brains’ or AI that goes along with it. August 2020, US’s DARPA AlphaDogfight trials in a series of AI experiments in simulator fighter cockpits an Air Force F-16 pilot lost five dogfights in a row against an AI pilot in virtual combat. DARPA’s Air Combat Evaluation (ACE) program is working on the digital assistant or ‘ brains’ for future drone/loyal wingman/ autopilots. This is an ongoing and extremely complex process. Unlike humans AI doesn't have an instructor, a technical manual, or previous experience on how to fly. It needs huge amounts of data on how any particular aircraft actually flies and particular type's aerodynamic data on speeds, G-loads, angle-of-attack and stall/spin characteristics, and a host of other aero/control data to learn that skill from. The loyal wingman concept is advancing along with the AI that governs the drone’s semi autonomous flight abilities and reactions to enemy actions and reactions during combat, as well as advancing the abilities of present autopilots. These learn to fly and dogfight like a human does, first by exploring how to control a particular aircraft and then how to manoeuvre against another simulated flying machines. Engineers are using a training architecture called proximal policy optimisation which is a method of machine learning in AI for obtaining optimal solutions for the tasks involved. The objective with the AI side is developing a system that can fly an unmanned aircraft with minimal, if any human interaction. Possibly using a software that is “modular” and “open architecture” so that new “complex autonomous behaviours” can be rapidly added into this advanced computer brain in the future. Spirit AeroSystems has been selected to develop and manufacture a prototype of the UK's loyal wingman drone, and awarded a three-year, £30 million contract to start the development at its branch located in Belfast. Project mosquito also involves Northrop Grumman’s UK division. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.aerotime.aero/27052-UK-selects-loyal-wingman-drone-for-RAF[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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