Aerospace Innovation Project

Developing autonomous flight and machine learning solutions for the next generation of aircraft

Our systems have flown on a wide range of aircraft, from small air taxis (Vahana eVTOL weighing 0.8 tons) to massive commercial aircraft (Airbus A350 weighing 315 tons) - equalling a scale factor of 400

Wayfinder contributed to Airbus' Autonomous Taxi, Take-Off and Landing (ATTOL) project which achieved an aviation world-first in 2020: autonomous taxiing, takeoff and landing of a commercial aircraft through fully automatic vision-based flight tests

01Mission

Wayfinder is developing autonomous flight systems for the next generation of commercial aircraft

Wayfinder is building scalable, certifiable autonomy systems to bring about a significant increase in safety and efficiency in the next generation of commercial aircraft.

Our team of experts is driving the maturation of core technologies to power autonomous flight. We are creating a reference architecture that includes hardware and software systems, and applying a data-driven development process to enable aircraft to perceive and react to their environment.

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02Technology

Autonomous technologies will drive a step change in safety and efficiency

Our team is at the heart of the autonomous flight revolution. We are making rapid progress in applying machine learning to develop autonomous flight systems by:

Architecting dedicated Machine Learning models
Creating realistic simulations
Developing safety critical software and hardware
Advancing our flight testing systems with a flight test aircraft
Scaling our data collection capabilities and advancing our algorithms

03Team

Meet Team Wayfinder

We're building the future of autonomous flight, together. Each person on our team has a high degree of specialization where they are the authority.

04Learn More

Check out our blog and publications for more in-depth details about Wayfinder

Oct 2, 2024 • Wayfinder

Flying High and Collecting Data in the Sky

Acubed is expanding its Flight Lab with a new experimental aircraft, giving teams convenient and efficient access to flight testing and the ability to quickly test and mature

Dec 29, 2023 • Wayfinder

Acubed Surpasses Goal for Massive Data Collection Campaign

Acubed has reached a tremendous milestone: we have collected data from over 100 airports across the United States. This achievement is part of our Wayfinder team’s data collection…

Nov 16, 2023 • Wayfinder

The Promise of Synthetic Data and Simulation to Accelerate Autonomous Flight

Synthetic data and simulation open up a world of opportunity for engineers in the aviation industry, as it promotes a safe and sustainable way to train and test machine learning…

May 3, 2023 • Wayfinder

The Next Phase of Data Collection: Expanding Acubed Test Flights Across the U.S.

Airbus is pioneering efforts to develop autonomous flight technologies that will maintain Airbus’ exceptional safety records in the wake of a dramatic increase in air travel demand…

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