{"id":165663,"date":"2023-06-13T00:22:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T05:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/a-new-ai-based-approach-for-controlling-autonomous-robots"},"modified":"2023-06-13T00:22:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T05:22:52","slug":"a-new-ai-based-approach-for-controlling-autonomous-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/a-new-ai-based-approach-for-controlling-autonomous-robots","title":{"rendered":"A new AI-based approach for controlling autonomous robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GoTEN7iyABs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the film \u201cTop Gun: Maverick,\u201d Maverick, played by Tom Cruise, is charged with training young pilots to complete a seemingly impossible mission\u2014to fly their jets deep into a rocky canyon, staying so low to the ground they cannot be detected by radar, then rapidly climb out of the canyon at an extreme angle, avoiding the rock walls. Spoiler alert: With Maverick\u2019s help, these human pilots accomplish their mission.<\/p>\n<p>A machine, on the other hand, would struggle to complete the same pulse-pounding task. To an <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/autonomous+aircraft\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">autonomous aircraft<\/a>, for instance, the most straightforward path toward the target is in conflict with what the machine needs to do to avoid colliding with the canyon walls or staying undetected. Many existing AI methods aren\u2019t able to overcome this conflict, known as the stabilize-avoid problem, and would be unable to reach their goal safely.<\/p>\n<p>MIT researchers have developed a new technique that can solve complex stabilize-avoid problems better than other methods. Their machine-learning approach matches or exceeds the safety of existing methods while providing a tenfold increase in stability, meaning the agent reaches and remains stable within its goal region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the film \u201cTop Gun: Maverick,\u201d Maverick, played by Tom Cruise, is charged with training young pilots to complete a seemingly impossible mission\u2014to fly their jets deep into a rocky canyon, staying so low to the ground they cannot be detected by radar, then rapidly climb out of the canyon at an extreme angle, avoiding [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}