Alphabet transitions its navigation system for its fleet of Loon high-altitude balloons to one controlled by AI, a first for commercial aerospace systems
The company's new AI flight control system outperforms its human-made one — Alphabet's Loon, the team responsible for beaming internet …
The Verge Nick Statt
Related Coverage
- Drifting Efficiently Through the Stratosphere Using Deep Reinforcement Learning Loon Blog · Salvatore Candido
- Autonomous navigation of stratospheric balloons using reinforcement learning Nature · Salvatore Candido
- Loon harnesses Google AI to deploy a reinforcement learning navigation system SlashGear · Shane McGlaun
- Loon's stratospheric balloons are now teaching themselves to fly better thanks to Google AI TechCrunch · Darrell Etherington
- Google AI is now piloting Loon's internet-beaming balloons Engadget · Kris Holt
- New AI-Based Navigation Helps Loon's Balloons Hover in Place Wired · Eric Niiler
- Alphabet's Loon deploys new AI-powered navigation system to balloon fleet ZDNet · Natalie Gagliordi
- Alphabet's internet Loon balloon kept on station in the sky using AI that beat human-developed control code The Register · Katyanna Quach
Discussion
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StratoCat
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“Drifting Efficiently Through the Stratosphere Using Deep Reinforcement Learning” Article by @salcandido on how Loon and Google AI achieved the world's first deployment of reinforcement learning in a production aerospace system https://medium.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@sigfpe
@sigfpe
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Interesting to see how Loon does its station-keeping these days. My early prototype implementation used a form of reinforcement learning but not deep reinforcement learning like this. https://twitter.com/...
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@loon4all
Loon
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Today in the journal @nature we're outlining our work w/ @GoogleAI to develop a balloon navigation system using reinforcement learning. Together, we built a machine that is capable of building new navigation systems faster & better than we humans can. #AI https://medium.com/...
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@micokoch
lvaro J. Castro Rivadeneira
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Awed by my brother @pcastr and his collaborative publication in @nature. My layperson summary is: “computers that can fly hot air balloons really high up, better than humans AND using less energy.” https://www.nature.com/...
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@emulenews
Francis Villatoro
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#Nature Autonomous navigation of stratospheric balloons using reinforcement learning https://www.nature.com/... the controller outperforms previous algorithm and is robust to the natural diversity in stratospheric winds. RL is an effective solution to real-world control problems.