The United States Naval Academy's XPlane Machine Learning Plugin

How to Train Your X-Plane

Step 1: Collect Data

Using this XML learning.xml over 6 hour period we collected this file dataBeforeProcessing.txt.

Here is a video from the collection of the Data

Step 2: Learn to fly

First the data was run through a few scripts to clean away X-Plane's graphical information, so only data collected by the plugin was left and so that the data would be MATLAB friendly. Here is the end result data.txt.
Using LSPI (Least-Squares Policy Iteration) we produced approximate Q-functions, which define our policy.

Step 3:Fly the plane

Using this XML learned.xml that has the Q-function weights from LSPI the plane was able to take off.

Here is a video of the successful flight

External Links

XPlane

Tiny XML

XPlane SDK

USNA Links

USNA Machine Learning Youtube Channel

USNA Computer Science

US Naval Academy