Inseok Hwang
Interim Director, AIDA3
Paul Stanley Professor in the Purdue School of Aeronautics and Astronautics
About Us
The Purdue Center on AI for Digital, Autonomous and Augmented Aviation (AIDA3), founded in April 2024, is a hub of innovation, where cutting-edge research meets practical application. At AIDA3, we harness the power of artificial intelligence to revolutionize aviation and transportation. Our multidisciplinary team is pioneering AI and machine learning (ML) models to address industry challenges — from optimizing commercial logistics to enhancing safety in autonomous transportation.
Our Mission
AIDA³’s mission is to unite academia and industry in pioneering interdisciplinary research in digital, autonomous, and augmented aviation, advancing physical AI to deliver innovative, safe, and trustworthy autonomous flight and air-mobility solutions.
The AIrTonomy Vision
AIDA3 is building research infrastructure for a new field of science: Safe and trustworthy AI for aerial autonomy, or what we call AIrTonomy. We invite scientists to join us as lead users of a new research infrastructure. Get involved now!
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Purdue University
Purdue University is a public research university leading with excellence at scale. Ranked among top 10 public universities in the United States, Purdue discovers, disseminates and deploys knowledge with a quality and at a scale second to none. More than 107,000 students study at Purdue across multiple campuses, locations and modalities, including more than 58,000 at our main campus in West Lafayette and Indianapolis.
Committed to affordability and accessibility, Purdue’s main campus has frozen tuition 14 years in a row. See how Purdue never stops in the persistent pursuit of the next giant leap — including its comprehensive urban expansion, the Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue Computes and the One Health initiative — at https://www.purdue.edu/president/strategic-initiatives.
Windracers
Windracers: Windracers provides the capability to deliver essential logistics to the people and places that need them, anywhere and everywhere, anytime, every time. Powered by its autopilot technology Masterless™, Windracers’ highly reliable long-range drones fly without the need of a pilot, delivering an autonomous solution from engines on to engines off and offering high utilization and scalability.
The robust and cost-effective ULTRA (Uncrewed Low-cost TRAnsport) platform can carry 100 kg up to 1,000 km and has Short Take-Off and Landing (STOL) capability. With a flexible payload, Windracers Group provides solutions across four sectors: Mail & Parcel, Humanitarian Assistance, Defense and Environmental Protection.
The groundbreaking autopilot system Masterless has been developed and patented by Distributed Avionics, part of the Windracers Group, to bring greater efficiency and safety. Masterless™ control was designed in line with the company’s Zero Single Point of Failure philosophy, meaning that no single flight computer is directly controlling the aircraft, so if any component should fail or produce false data, the aircraft will still fly safely.
INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL AI
Purdue University is building a world-leading program in artificial intelligence (AI). Leveraging Purdue’s signature strengths in materials science, engineering, microelectronics, computer science, agriculture and life sciences, the Institute for Physical AI (IPAI) is committed to solving the world’s toughest challenges.
Leadership
Managing Director
Core Faculty
Affiliated Faculty
Student Fellows
Doguhan Yeke
Research Expertise: Computer Vision
Pillar:
5 – Cybersecurity
Liangqi Yuan
Research Expertise: LLMs, Federated Learning
Pillar:
1 – Human Autonomy Teaming
Together with our interdisciplinary team we are forming a new field of aerial autonomy sciences and engineering while bringing lab-to-life to solve real-world problems.
Sabine Brunswicker
Director, AIDA3