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Don't take the hard maths approach when you can take the lazy AI approach... Just fly a kite by hand, log the data, stick it through a reinforcement learning
by londons_explore 3y ago
Don't take the hard maths approach when you can take the lazy AI approach... Just fly a kite by hand, log the data, stick it through a reinforcement learning system to make you a controller that keeps the kite in the air.
Reinforcement learning loves these kind of problems that only have double digit numbers of scalar inputs and outputs.
Either way, my kite flying experience tells me that your reel-motors must move with quite some speed and power if you are to keep the kite in the air when the wind suddenly reverses direction.
- btbuildem 3y agoI wonder if it would work better if there was a swarm of kites - or at least several deployed in the same area. Far enough from each other to avoid interference, but close enough so they could share data about the air movement. I agree with the sentiment that going at it from first principles sounds like a nightmare; teaching-by-example AI approach seems like a faster path to success.