The Boeing Company
DIALOGUE SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS AIRCRAFT

Abstract:

A method of controlling autonomous vehicles is described. The method comprises receiving a text string regarding operation of an autonomous aircraft, analyzing the text string via a decoder module to identify one or more linguistic aircraft control components in the text string, and accessing an aircraft-related knowledge base associated with the decoder module to validate one or more identified linguistic aircraft control components. The method further comprises, based at least on the identified linguistic aircraft control components, determining a command for controlling the autonomous aircraft, and outputting the command for execution by the autonomous aircraft.