The Boeing Company

Ignacio M Soriano

Deepak Khosla

Yang Chen

Kevin R Martin

Michael A Warren

Sean Soleyman

Joshua G Fadaie

Ryan T Greene

Charles Richard Tullock

Calvin Chung

Matthew David Burch

Shawn Moffit

Apparatus and methods for training a machine learning algorithm (MLA) to control a first aircraft in an environment that comprises the first aircraft and a second aircraft are described. Training of the MLA can include: the MLA determining a first-aircraft action for the first aircraft to take within the environment; sending the first-aircraft action from the MLA; after sending the first-aircraft action, receiving an observation of the environment and a reward signal at the MLA, the observation including information about the environment after the first aircraft has taken the first-aircraft action and the second aircraft has taken a second-aircraft action, the reward signal indicating a score of performance of the first-aircraft action based on dynamic and kinematic properties of the second aircraft; and updating the MLA based on the observation of the environment and the reward signal.

Autonomous behavior generation for aircraft

A method for configuring a computing device to use a communication protocol is provided. The method is performed by a computing device that includes a host processor coupled to a bus processor and to memory. The method includes receiving, by the host processor, a human-readable configuration file that includes parameters for communication using the communication protocol. The method additionally includes generating, by the host processor, at least one data structure based on the parameters in the human-readable configuration file. Additionally, the method includes providing, to the bus processor, memory location associated with the at least one data structure for use in communicating using the communication protocol.

Systems and methods for configuring a computing device to use a communication protocol

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Ignacio M Soriano