The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) aims to develop technology that will enable a pilot to control multiple unmanned air vehicles using natural language voice commands by 2007.
The three-year study will tackle the problems of making an individual UAV aware of when it is being spoken to directly and enabling groups of UAVs to follow orders autonomously.
The technology will use an off-the-shelf speech translation programme that converts a pilot's verbal commands into machine language, which are then processed by the UAV's artificial intelligence.
Source: Flight International
