Cedric Cocaud, the director of engineering for the Wayfinder Group at Airbus’ ACubed innovation hub, has joined. In the discussion with Cedric, we look at a few of the technological obstacles to innovation in the aviation industry, such as autonomy. Cedric tried to use the work being done in the self-driving vehicle industry to construct completely autonomous planes as part of Project Vahanna, A3’s entry into air taxis. We talk about the data gathering procedure, some of the algorithms being built for this work, and Cedric’s opinions on using synthetic data for these jobs. The difficulties of labelling the data, including programmatic and automated labelling, are also covered in detail.
