Abstracts: May 20, 2024

Members of the research community at Microsoft work continuously to advance their respective fields. Abstracts brings its audience to the cutting edge with them through short, compelling conversations about new and noteworthy achievements. In this episode, Principal Research Manager Andrey Kolobov joins host Gretchen Huizinga to discuss “WindSeer: Real-time volumetric wind prediction over complex terrain aboard a small uncrewed aerial vehicle,” which was recently published in Nature Communications. Using just synthetic data, Kolobov and his coauthors train a model to predict wind fields in real time with limited compute and measurement data, an advancement that can help small drones stay in the air longer and operate more safely.Learn more:WindSeer: Real-time volumetric wind prediction over complex terrain aboard a small uncrewed aerial vehicle