AI Helps UAVs Predict Oncoming Turbulence: Professor Animashree (Anima) Anandkumar and her team at The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a control strategy for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that uses reinforcement learning to adaptively learn how turbulent wind can change over time and then uses that knowledge to control the UAV based on what it is experiencing

The article presents an interview with California Institute of Technology (Caltech) professor Animashree (Anima) Anandkumar on her team's artificial intelligence (AI)-driven approach to helping unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) predict and respond to turbulence. Topics include the use of reinforcement learning to model wind changes in real time, the integration of Fourier methods for efficient learning, and future plans to implement their FALCON system in actual UAVs.