MAI determined the winners of the VI International Aero Hackathon

On December 8-10, the VI International AI Challenge, Aero Hackathon, took place at Moscow Aviation Institute. The team of the Bauman Engineering School No. 1580 TrueCoders became the leader of the competition. Two teams took the second place at once: Gym bros, the students of the Institute No. 8 "Computer Science and Applied Mathematics" of MAI and MSTU "STANKIN", and Durgasoft, which brought together students from institutes No. 8, No. 3 "Control Systems, Informatics and Electric Power Engineering" and No. 12 "Aerospace science-intensive technologies and production".

This year, all the teams worked on the same task in the area of neural network aerodynamics, prepared by experts from the artificial intelligence laboratory of the MAI Institute No. 8, thought they used different approaches. In particular, they needed to program the compression and decompression of a large array of aerodynamic calculation data via wavelet transform using the FlowRange library and propose further development of the method. In addition, it was necessary to create, train and apply a neural network model for calculating aerodynamic values for stationary and non-stationary cases of flow around bodies of simple and complex geometry. MAI supercomputers were used as a computing base for calculations.

– TrueCoders presented in their solution a variant of a graph neural network for predicting the pressure field on the surface of an aircraft, which has not yet been described in the scientific literature. Gym bros have prepared a solution based on the Yandex CatBoost library for the problem of aerodynamic characteristics, which has also not yet been encountered in world practice. Durgasoft has found a solution for CFD data compression tasks based on wavelet compression, and the team distinguished itself by not being afraid to rewrite the source code in C++ for the original library and propose a new standard that our laboratory specialists can now use, – said Maria Bulakina, head of the MAI IT Center.

The winners received cash prizes, merch and additional points for admission to the master's program. The organizers of the competition were the MAI IT Center together with the Institute No. 8 "Computer Science and Applied Mathematics" and the Competence Center "Mathematical Modeling".