Controlling Aircraft—From Humans to Autonomous Systems

Download or read book Controlling Aircraft—From Humans to Autonomous Systems written by Aharon David and published by SAE International. This book was released on 2024-09-25 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris, June 18, 1914: Crowds gathered at the “Concours de la Sécurité en Aéroplane” to witness 21-year-old Lawrence Sperry demonstrate his newly invented gyroscopic stabilizer. With his hands in the air, the device flew his Curtiss C-2 flying boat. Only a decade after the Wright brothers’ initial flight, the first n “autopilot” made its public debut. As impressive as this public demonstration was, it was merely a humble, although spectacular moment of foreshadowing. Even today—110 years later—the process of automating aspects of flight has not yet fully concluded, leading to deteriorating insight into the automatic behavior of aircraft systems, and even the waning of human instincts and intuition. Controlling Aircraft—From Humans to Autonomous Systems: Rise of the Machines covers the distancing of humans from their flying machines through more than a century-long process of “assisting” systems introduction, the positive and negative consequences of this process, and mitigation solutions for the negative consequences. Click here to access the full SAE EDGETM Research Report portfolio. https://doi.org/10.4271/EPR2024020