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Honeywell Launches Darwin Single-pilot AI Project
Project addresses minimum-crew challenges
Honeywell Darwin artificial intelligence project
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Honeywell is leading research into the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to support single-pilot operations under a European Union SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking project. The goal is to “develop AI-powered digital assistants and a human-AI collaboration framework to support both extended minimum-crew operations and single-pilot operations, ensuring the same (or higher) level of safety and same (or lower) workload as operations with a full crew today,” according to Honeywell.

The Digital Assistants for Reducing Workload and Increasing collaboration (Darwin) project includes partners Pipistrel, Germany’s DLR research institute, Eurocontrol, EASA, and Slovenia Control. The research will be done at Honeywell’s Brno, Czech Republic development center.

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