AUTOMATIC AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE DEVELOPED BY EUROPEAN SCIENTISTS
April 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN scientists working with major aerospace company EADS say they have developed air traffic management artificial intelligence software forcing planes to change direction if they are on a collision course. This would happen for potential crashes with another aircraft or a building, and would see navigation systems operate automatically, without pilot assistance. The work has been undertaken by the department of artificial intelligence at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid's Facultad de Informática, working with EADS, Spain's Escuela ...
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