Artificial Intelligence at Airbus
Airbus recognizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) as not merely a research domain but a transformative technology poised to revolutionize all sectors. The core belief at Airbus is that AI can serve as a strategic lever to harness the full potential of data.
**AI’s Role in Business**:
Airbus has identified six critical technical realms where AI will be pivotal in reshaping its business in the forthcoming half-decade:
1. **Knowledge Extraction**: Gleaning insights from non-structured documents.
2. **Computer Vision**: Converting imagery and videos into recognizable activities and objects through deep learning-based decision-making and detection.
3. **Anomaly Detection**: Discovering concealed data patterns.
4. **Conversational Assistance**: Architecting systems that facilitate natural language interactions.
5. **Decision-making**: Enhancing solutions for intricate constrained issues.
6. **Autonomous Flight**: Spearheading the next wave of aerial vehicles enriched with newfound capacities.
**AI Initiatives at Airbus**:
– **ASTARTES**: A pioneering AI initiative aimed at translating human-level experiences digitally to bolster tactical coordination in the context of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS).
– **Autonomous Flight**: The emphasis is on harnessing machine learning and AI-driven computer vision to facilitate autonomous operations like take-off, landing, navigation, and obstacle detection for commercial aircraft.
– **CIMON**: An AI-driven robotic aide for International Space Station astronauts, fitted with tools to perceive, process, and present information.
– **Earth Observation**: Exploiting AI in tandem with cutting-edge aerospace tech like high-res satellites to generate custom insights pertinent to damage assessments and disaster response.
– **Factory of the Future**: A project that aspires to transition from linear to concurrent production processes by harmonizing and simplifying AI software tools for enterprise resource management.
– **Future Combat Air System (FCAS)**: A defense initiative focusing on linking next-gen fighter jets with other air vehicles, all backed by AI and advanced analytics.
– **Skywise**: An open-data platform using AI to analyze diverse data streams, offering valuable insights for the aviation sector at large.
– **Unmanned Traffic Management**: As drones become an integral part of our airspace, AI plays a pivotal role in classifying, merging, and filtering mission-critical data exchanged by these UAVs.
– **Urban Air Mobility**: Envisioning urban transportation’s future, AI underpins the “sense-and-avoid” tech that allows future aerial vehicles to preemptively respond to unpredicted situations.
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