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Record W4410632525 · doi:10.22215/etd/2025-16500

Autonomous Aerial Drone Landing Site Selection on a Maritime Vessel

2025· dissertation· en· W4410632525 on OpenAlexfundno aff
E Giroux

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicMaritime Navigation and Safety
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaUniversity of Washington
KeywordsDroneAeronauticsSelection (genetic algorithm)Marine engineeringEngineeringAerospace engineeringSite selectionComputer scienceArtificial intelligencePolitical scienceBiology

Abstract

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This thesis focuses on the development of an autonomous system capable of iden- tifying, tracking, and landing on suitable sites aboard a moving ship. Leveraging modifications to the Hazard-Aware Landing Optimization (HALO) algorithm, origi- nally designed for static terrain, the system integrates robust mapping, point cloud registration, and site selection algorithms to enable reliable performance in dynamic maritime conditions. A simulation environment was developed, utilizing Microsoft AirSim and ShipMo3D. This simulation incorporated a quadrotor equipped with Light Detec- tion and Ranging (LiDAR) to map ship decks and evaluate potential landing sites. Key innovations included dynamic point cloud registration using FilterReg and the integration of a modified Landing Period Indicator (LPI) algorithm. The results demonstrated the system’s ability to autonomously map ship decks, identify suitable landing sites, and execute landings on a ship moving under diffi- cult sea conditions. This work establishes a foundation for further development in autonomous maritime operations.

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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 categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.607
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

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)0.0020.000

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 head0.006
GPT teacher head0.224
Teacher spread0.219 · 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.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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Published2025
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