LoFlyte: Neural Network Testbed for UCAVS

When I first heard about this UCAV, I was thinking about thought controll. Its not however, apparently the computer is adaptive and learns. The site itself is pretty cool. They are involved in Hypersonic and a whole range of Plasma Stealth and friction reduction experiements too. They also are trialing USV or unmanned surfave vehicle too! Pretty cool looking company. Maybe a DARPA front?

Accurate Automation Corporation designed and tested the LoFLYTE� testbed aircraft. The LoFLYTE program has demonstrated several advanced technologies. All three aircraft are flown by remote control. The present LoFLYTEs fly slower than the speed of sound, but have the same "waverider" shape designed for Mach Five operation. The term "waverider" refers to the fact that aircraft of this shape ride on the shock waves that they create when they fly above the speed of sound. Other supersonic and hypersonic aircraft suffer reduced performance because they fight against the shock waves rather than riding them. The waverider shape improves fuel consumption by decreasing air resistance at speeds greater than Mach One.


Accurate Automation Corporation has developed an innovative control subsystem for flight path management of multiple aircraft. This technology is based on a learning algorithm known as the Adaptive Critic, which creates an easy-to-use subsystem for assisting aircraft and mission planning systems. Our controller helps to automate several flight processes including formation flying and coordinated trajectories. The operator(s) can simply specify the final formation and destination and the automatic guidance system will specify flight paths for each aircraft. Waypoints can be designated along the flight path to force a formation to be in a specified place at a scheduled time for multi-stage missions. A robust inner-loop control system on board each aircraft generates the controls that execute the commanded maneuvers. Constraints govern the controller so that the aircraft are never given commands to perform potentially dangerous manuvers.
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