Can an Airplane Dance? - Learning to Turn Music into Flight
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What if a song could become a flight?
I built a system that takes music and turns it into a three-dimensional choreography: a sequence of movements shaped by the rhythm of the track. A reinforcement-learning agent then learns to perform that choreography in flight, discovering through experience how to turn each musical moment into a movement that the aircraft can actually execute.
The challenge is that rhythm does not bend, and neither does physics. The music keeps moving forward, while the aircraft has to remain within the limits of real flight. For the choreography to work, timing and motion have to come together. Not just once, but continuously throughout the entire routine.
The result is a machine that learns to fly to music: not simply following a predefined path, but turning rhythm into movement and movement into choreography.
