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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Video: Aircraft Carrier Crews Guide In Robot Planes With Visible Hand Gestures
Landing airplanes on moving ships is no mean feat, but this will be especially true when the airplanes are unmanned.
Along with making decisions, autonomous airplanes will have to heed their human counterparts during aircraft carrier takeoff and landing — but can a robot read and understand arm-waving signals?
The problem is complicated in at least two ways — first, the airplane must determine whether the human’s hands are up or down, elbows in our out. Second, it has to red which gesture the human is making, and what it means. MIT PhD student Yale Song is trying to solve these problems.
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