id":41293728,"user":"tndl","time":1724094140,"time_ago":"a year ago","type":"comment","content":"

Pretty much this. We add the data the balloons themselves are collecting to make things more precise as well","comments":[{"id":41294802,"user":"shagie","time":1724103692,"time_ago":"a year ago","type":"comment","content":"

Digging into it a little bit more...

The Balloon Learning Environment https://research.google/blog/the-balloon-learning-environmen... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31155137 - 73 points | 10 comments)

(2016) Station-keeping of a high-altitude balloon with electric propulsion and wireless power transmission: A concept study https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00945...

(2022) Station-keeping for high-altitude balloon with reinforcement learning - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02731...

(2023) Resource-Constrained Station-Keeping for Helium Balloons using Reinforcement Learning - https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01173

Chasing the citations from those papers to previous works can provide a fairly deep rabbit hole of things to read.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":0,"url":"item?id=41294802"}],"comments_count":1,"url":"item?id=41293728"}

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