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Record W2049068435 · doi:10.4043/24641-ms

Use of Robotic Aircraft in the Oil and Gas Sector

2014· article· en· W2049068435 on OpenAlexaffabout
Wilson Pearce

Bibliographic record

VenueOTC Arctic Technology Conference · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicOil Spill Detection and Mitigation
Canadian institutionsING Robotic Aviation
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAeronauticsFlexibility (engineering)AviationAirframeVariety (cybernetics)EngineeringFlight planNavyFlight planningSearch and rescueRobotComputer scienceSystems engineeringAerospace engineeringArtificial intelligence

Abstract

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Introduction Getting the right information, into the right hands, in a timely manner, is a crucial aspect of oil and gas exploration and production, especially in harsh conditions. Many of the survey and surveillance jobs, including geological exploration, critical infrastructure inspection, pipeline monitoring, ice condition study and wildlife and other forms of environmental surveys can be dull, dirty and dangerous. These are well suited to robotic aviation. Information today is gleaned from a variety of sources such as installed monitors, terrestrial patrols, fixed and rotary wing aircraft and satellites. Managing the significant issues of cost, risk, safety, flexibility and responsiveness, let alone the disparate nature of the data sets received, is a daily challenge. Effective use of robotic aviation has the potential to greatly improve the situation. A robotic aircraft system that incorporates the airframe, sensor package and data fusion plan is a powerful tool. The quality of the data that can be gathered quickly, and in both a proactive and/or reactive manner has to be seen to be believed. What is even more significant is the huge reduction in footprint in terms of cost, risk and in the requirements for space, fuel and personnel. For example, the fuel required for a fixed wing robotic aircraft is less than one litre per hour, carrying similar or better sensors than a helicopter or light plane. ING Robotic Aviation developed its expertise with the Canadian Army in Afghanistan, and to this day retains a team deployed with the Royal Canadian Navy in the Indian Ocean. Experienced gleaned from military operations is already proving to be useful in the civil sphere, for example in conducting flare stack inspections for Irving Oil and wildlife counts that can be conducted accurately and unobtrusively.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.595
Threshold uncertainty score0.266

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.207
Teacher spread0.189 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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