AI-enabled control system helps autonomous drones stay on target in uncertain environments

AI-enabled control system helps autonomous drones stay on target in uncertain environments

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Boston MA (SPX) Jun 12, 2025

An autonomous drone carrying water to help extinguish a wildfire in the Sierra Nevada might encounter swirling Santa Ana winds that threaten to push it off course. Rapidly adapting to these unknown disturbances inflight presents an enormous challenge for the drone's flight control system. To help such a drone stay on target, MIT researchers developed a new, machine learning-based adaptive

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