USNA Machine Learning X-Plane Plugin

License

None, copy and paste as you wish.

The developers of the USNA X-Plane Machine Learning Plugin are employees of the United States Government's Department of the Navy and are therefore are not allowed to place any limiting software licenses on anything they produce.
Not that we would have anyway.

Warranty

None, USNAXPMLP comes with no warranty nor even a guarantee of functionality.

The plugin does work however.

About X-Plane

X-Plane is owned by Laminar Research of Columbia South Carolinia
X-Plane is available for download at http://www.x-plane.com/

Where the C++ Code Comes From

Code that interacts with X-Plane is from the X-Plane SDK, which is availible at http://www.xsquawkbox.net/xpsdk
Code that reads in the XML is powered by the TinyXML XML parser and is available on sourceforge.net at http://sourceforge.net/projects/tinyxml/

How the Policies Were Learned

For our proof of concept we used Least-Squares Policy Iteration (LSPI), as presented by Lagoudakis and Parr, to approximate Q function(s).
LSPI is availble for download at: www.cs.duke.edu/research/AI/LSPI/
LSPI is writen in MATLAB which is available here http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/