Using Artificial Intelligence to Land Drones on Moving Platforms

The next big goal in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is to make them fully autonomous. The belief is that this will be the only way drones can deliver goods to customers from a mobile platform or return to a warship moving at high speeds in the ocean. Researchers at University of Cincinnati's College of Engineering and Applied Sciences are tackling the issue of drones and precision landing by using a type of artificial intelligence, which they call fuzzy logic. Researchers test drones using fuzzy logic, a type of artificial intelligence, in order for precision landing on moving targets. Source: University of Cincinnati "[A drone] has to land within a designated area, with a small margin of error," says Manish Kumar, associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Cincinnati.