New research from Georgia Tech could provide pilots with faster, more reliable autonomous assistance, better diagnosing problems and impacts of various decisions, and ultimately saving lives.
The system will forecast future decisions and their impact on a particular trajectory, allowing it to make a potentially unsafe maneuver to gain additional information about how the plane works as long as there is still high confidence it can return to a safe trajectory. This trial-and-error is essentially the type of decision-making pilots might perform mentally during emergency scenarios.