Avionics News February 2023 - 31

A helicopter
detected in blue
box (center) and
zoomed in on
(top left)
STORY BY DAVE HUGHES
vidyne and Daedalean are pioneering the development
of an avionics product that will use cameras
to identify aircraft and other hazards nearby
in what may be the first safety-critical aviation artificial
intelligence/machine learning system ever certified.
Avidyne President Dan Schwinn heard about what 2016
startup Daedalean was doing with artificial intelligence/
machine learning and aviation and visited the company in
Zurich, Switzerland, in 2018.
Daedalean has expertise
in machine learning, robotics,
computer vision, path
planning and aviation-grade
software engineering, cerA
tification,
safety assessment and flight testing. It employs
more than 100 people with headquarters in Zurich and
offices in Latvia and Phoenix, Arizona.
Avidyne and Daedalean formed a partnership in 2020
that takes advantage of Avidyne's long experience in
certifying avionics for business and general aviation with
the Federal Aviation Administration and the European
Union Aviation Safety Agency and of Daedalean's expertise
in artificial intelligence. Daedalean aims to develop
autonomous piloting systems for helicopters, aircraft and
electric vertical takeoff and landing and other advanced
air mobility air vehicles.
The new product, Avidyne PilotEye Vision System,
could be certified and on the market as early as this year,
probably before any other artificial intelligence systems
are certified for eVTOLs being developed with billions of
dollars of private equity money.
PilotEye will integrate with any display that does standards-based
traffic display as well as a tablet display such
as an iPad. " You'll be able to put this into an aircraft with
a traditional flight deck, get the benefit of visually acquiring
traffic and be able to use an iPad to zoom in on the
traffic, " Schwinn said. " It is
not designed to be dependent
on having Avidyne displays
in the aircraft, although with
Avidyne displays there will
be some significantly enhanced features. "
PilotEye is a computer vision-based system that detects,
tracks and classifies fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters
and drones. At first, it will simply be a safety aid to the
pilot. But to avoid drones, it would have to be eventually
coupled to an autopilot for quick evasive maneuvers.
PilotEye can detect a Cessna 172 at about 2 miles but can
only detect a Group 1 drone (20 pounds or less) at much
closer range - only a few hundred yards.
Avidyne was founded 27 years ago by Schwinn to bring
big glass displays to general aviation cockpits, and its
equipment was soon flying on Cirrus SR20 and SR22.
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Photos courtesy of Daedalean

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