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In the video it shows that the AI is only able to do one of three things: "go left", "go forward", and "go right". It can't choose to hover in place because that isn't an intent it can express. Although I don't know why it couldn't just keep going around in tight circles?

Funnily enough, if you've ever implemented a Pacman clone, this is also how the ghost AI works.

Fun fact: all of the Pacman ghosts actually behave differently:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3938/the_pacman_dossie...

This would be a lower level part of the control system, with some higher level part determining its target. I would assume it would be somewhere close to a PID loop being tuned to avoid flipping.

A paper airplane is flying. A "flight" involves takeoff, climbout, leveling off, descent, and landing.

So the question is, what does autonomous mean and what is it adding?