Evolving a Helicopter's Heading Controller

[NebunLaCap]

what do i have to major in to be doing this kind of stuff in school?

[AtheistVendetta]

That's pretty slick... would be interesting to evolve the software virtually to a decent level where it can control the helicopter on its own. This has great real-world applications in surveillance UAV's and such.

[TheCCI]

@AtheistVendetta

Thanks. We evolved two of the four controllers so far and the helicopter is hovering as stable now as I can fly it manually.

I believe this is very useful for any kind of control problem where no formal model is known...for any kind of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or general industrial control problem.

[TheCCI]

Actually, this setup was used to evolve (using a genetic algorithm) control parameters. We have shown that this method was successfully finding robust control parameters, automatically and without any human intervention. We tested the parameters in actual test flights and published the findings in scientific papers. Take a look at this test flight video.

[mdivinc]

What a waste of time. You can't check anything with that set up. your only fooling yourself