Autonomous Flight Leaders Join Forces in Bid to Speed Certification

Xwing and Daedalean—which both produce automated systems for the cockpit—will collaborate on the development of certification standards.

Jack Daleo

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 at 02:40 PM ET

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Daedalean- (left) and Xwing-equipped aircraft are intended to simplify things for the pilot—or remove them from the cockpit entirely. [Courtesy: Xwing]

Key Takeaways:

Leading autonomous cockpit developers Xwing (U.S.) and Daedalean (Swiss) have partnered to accelerate the certification of their AI and machine learning-based avionics systems.
The companies will share data, knowledge, and processes to harmonize their design assurance approaches, aiming to create consensus and speed up the development of certification guidelines.
Their collaboration seeks to work closely with regulators like the FAA and EASA to establish industry-wide standards for the certification of novel machine learning-based safety-critical systems in civil aircraft.

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Two of the leading companies looking to bring autonomy to the cockpit are joining forces.

On Wednesday, San Francisco-based Xwing partnered with Swiss firm Daedalean in a bid to accelerate both companies’ path to market. The intelligent systems developers agreed to share data, knowledge, and processes around artificial intelligence and machine learning as a way to harmonize their approaches to certification.