I don't know yet. Hopefully Boeing will answer. If it is remote control as
you say below, how would you envisage that? What about a remote human
pilot surrounded by a kind of VR set with all the images from the
dog-fight before him/her and the capacity to react which will immediately
be delivered to the pilotless plane? Or something else?
FWP
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Adrian Tymes wrote:
> Are you sure that by "pilotless", Boeing isn't just referring to
> no-pilot-in-the-airplane? There's a difference between remote control
> and AI.
>
> Franklin Wayne Poley wrote:
> >
> > Given that the X-45 will be autonomous and not under tele-robotic control,
> > how would you rate its overall AI capabilities?
> > FWP
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:46:46 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Franklin Wayne Poley <fwpoley@vcn.bc.ca>
> > Reply-To: EDTV-Robotics-State-Of-The-Art@egroups.com
> > To: wwwmail.boeing@pss.boeing.com
> > Cc: edtv-robotics-state-of-the-art@egroups.com
> > Subject: [EDTV-Robotics-State-Of-The-Art] X-45's Machine Vision System re
> > "Human Equivalency"
> >
> > Dear Boeing:
> > Last night a CTV news clip showed sketches of the X-45, a
> > pilotless fighter craft which Boeing expects to have ready for use by
> > 2010. However, I couldn't find it on your web site. Could you please
> > direct me to someone who would be able to answer a few questions for a
> > proposed educational television program on robotics-state-of-the-art?
> > In particular I am wondering about the X-45's artificial vision system.
> > If the pilotless fighter is to be competitive with humans it must have an
> > artifificial vision and object recognition system to surpass that of
> > humans, ie to exceeed "human equivalency". What current technologies make
> > Boeing confident that the X-45 will surpass human equivalency in this
> > sense?
> >
> > Thank you-FWP
> >
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