An Intelligent Autopilot System that learns piloting skills from human pilots by imitation

2016 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 1023-1031

  Baomar, Haitham ^a   Bentley, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; METEOROLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; TRACKING (POSITION); TRAINING AIRCRAFT; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AUTOMATIC FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; AUTOPILOT SYSTEMS; CURRENT PROBLEMS; MEAN ABSOLUTE DEVIATIONS; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; ROBUST LEARNING; STATIONARY POSITIONS; TRAINING DATA SETS;

FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84979729505     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS.2016.7502578     Document Type: Conference Paper

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