{"id":33508,"date":"2017-01-16T00:04:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T08:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/darpas-latest-tech-may-make-human-pilots-a-thing-of-the-past"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:57:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:57:13","slug":"darpas-latest-tech-may-make-human-pilots-a-thing-of-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/darpas-latest-tech-may-make-human-pilots-a-thing-of-the-past","title":{"rendered":"DARPA\u2019s Latest Tech May Make Human Pilots a Thing of the Past"},"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\/nh__owcYXkk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s been the plan for a while.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Pentagon\u2019s Defense Advance Research Project Agency (DARPA), the agency responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military, has facilitated the development of a robotic system to take over flying duties from military pilots. According to DARPA, the program, known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/program\/aircrew-labor-in-cockpit-automation-system\">Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System<\/a> (ALIAS) was to produce \u201ca tailorable, drop-in, removable kit that would promote the addition of high levels of automation into existing aircraft, enabling operation with reduced onboard crew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the system was successfully tested in three different models of military aircraft, a Sikorsky S-76 helicopter, a Diamond DA-42 aircraft, and two Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft. The testing also included ground demonstrations of the system responding to simulated system failures. These demonstrations also proved that the installation and removal of the system did not damage the vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>According to DARPA program manager, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/news-events\/2016-12-23\">Scott Wierzbanowski<\/a>, \u201cIn Phase 2, we exceeded our original program objectives with two performers, Sikorsky and Aurora Flight Sciences, each of which conducted flight tests on two different aircraft.\u201d The next phase of development looks to bring the system to seven more types of aircraft, including fixed-wing, and rotary propelled vehicles. \u201cIn Phase 3, we plan to further enhance ALIAS\u2019 ability to respond to contingencies, decrease pilot workload, and adapt to different missions and aircraft types,\u201d says Wierzbanowski. Given the extensive strides the first two phases of the project have made, it may not be too much longer before we see the technology deployed.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/darpas-latest-tech-may-make-human-pilots-a-thing-of-the-past\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/darpas-latest-tech-may-make-human-pilot...-the-past\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s been the plan for a while. The Pentagon\u2019s Defense Advance Research Project Agency (DARPA), the agency responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military, has facilitated the development of a robotic system to take over flying duties from military pilots. According to DARPA, the program, known as Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33508","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59124,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33508\/revisions\/59124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}