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Personally, I believe the problem is too few sensors. Don't make it 3 or 10, make it 10K sensors. If 10% are off, you can simply ignore them, and not even alert
by iSnow 8y ago
Personally, I believe the problem is too few sensors. Don't make it 3 or 10, make it 10K sensors. If 10% are off, you can simply ignore them, and not even alert the pilot.
Living beings have millions of sensors for most input and are able to work with conflicting sensory information because of this high redundancy.
- heavenlyblue 8y agoDo you propose to grow airplanes, too?
- MockObject 8y ago> In Air France 333, the pitot static tube, which measure airspeed, was jammed by ice. In such a case, all of your 10k sensors would have been iced.
- iSnow 8y agoBut they would not go down all at once like one or two sensors. As they would be spread across the plane, the system would "feel" it is losing sensors and be "aware" of it. It would know when to invalidate sensor input and tell the pilot about it. With a mix of Pitot and other sensors, it would be even more precisely able to know when to stop trusting the sensors. This is something that is currently lacking.