In an era of unprecedented demand for passenger and cargo aircraft, the aviation industry is focused on enhancing operations, reducing costs, ensuring reliability and safety, and achieving net-zero environmental goals -- and innovative solutions are needed to successfully accomplish this. Recent advancements in technologies like AI, ML, and computer vision powered by deep learning are revolutionizing the industry, enabling vision-based autonomous aircraft functions such as taxi, takeoff, and landing. These breakthroughs facilitate a paradigm shift from low-level aircraft control to high-level operational oversight, promising a new era of aviation efficiency. Acubed is at the forefront of this transformation, developing autonomous flight and AI solutions through rapid, data-driven software development. Leveraging large-scale data and compute infrastructure, machine learning, and simulation, our approach is meticulously guided by certifiable verification and validation to ensure safety and reliability.
Arne Stoschek
Arne is the Vice President of AI, Autonomy & Digital Information and oversees the company’s development of autonomous flight and machine learning solutions to enable future, self-piloted aircraft. In his role, he also leads the advancement of large-scale data-driven processes to develop novel aircraft functions. He is passionate about robotics, autonomy and the impact these technologies will have on future mobility. After holding engineering leadership positions at global companies such as Volkswagen/Audi and Infineon, and at aspiring Silicon Valley startups, namely Lucid Motors/Atieva, Knightscope and Better Place, Arne dared to take his unique skill set to altitude above ground inside Airbus. Arne earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Munich and held a computer vision and data analysis research position at Stanford University.
