A University of Arizona professor was awarded $4.5 million by the Pentagon to study the use of artificial intelligence to guide super-fast missiles.
David Wichner It’s one thing to build a hypersonic missile that will fly more than five times the speed of sound.Now, University of Arizona scientists will lead an effort to solve that problem, under a Pentagon contract to study the use of artificial intelligence to improve the navigation and guidance of hypersonic aircraft, which travel at speeds of Mach 5 and higher.
In response, the UA has beefed up its hypersonics research labs in recent years, including a major expansion of its wind-tunnel labs funded by the university and $10 million in federal and state grants. "Many conventional systems are designed using linear theory and are not designed to fly or intercept at that speed," Furfaro said."There are a lot of things happening in hypersonic flow that are so nonlinear that they are not fully understood, that we need to characterize if we want to design systems that work under these conditions."
Furfaro said he’s unable to talk about specific experiments the project will entail, due to Defense Department security requirements for hypersonic programs, much of which remains classified. Little noted that the UA’s investments in his lab’s wind-tunnel facility and supersonic and hypersonic wind tunnels in the nearby Boundary-Layer Stability and Transition Laboratory are paying off.
UA officials including College of Engineering Dean David Hahn called Furfaro’s contract award “a big win” for the school’s hypersonics program.
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