The evidence.
In plain sight.

Aerial landing research, with the failures left in. Compare original detector predictions, explore camera stress, and see what the separate simulation actually established.

Original-model replay verified. Retrospective evidence, not flight certification.

Same view. Two models.

Full explorer →

Baseline

Loading results

Loading source image…

Matched
—
Unmatched
—
Missed
—

Phase 23

Loading results

Loading source image…

Matched
—
Unmatched
—
Missed
—
AnnotationMatched boxUnmatched box

Loading the saved original-model record…

Illustrative reused KIOS frame, not a representative sample. Metrics count every prediction; overlays show all matched boxes and up to two unmatched boxes. Target matching permits false positives and does not mean landing success.

Original replay, exact match. 24 / 24 published metric cells matched exactly; four prediction tables matched byte-for-byte.

Check the receipt →

The average improves.
The hard tail doesn't.

Phase 23 improves mAP50 in four of six camera conditions. Occlusion and mixed stress expose regressions that the average hides.

−13.3 pp mAP50 on the equally weighted occlusion + mixed-stress pair · Phase 24 reanalysis

Baseline measured · Phase 23 paired

Read the paired detector study →

All six conditions. No hidden tail.

BaselinePhase 23

Published condition-level mAP50, not the selected-frame match above. Same 86 reused frames from two dependent sequences.

86 protected frames516 cross-model views860 within-model stress pairsInput audit ↗Original model record →

A signal in simulation.
A separate question.

Can the system know when its landing estimate is unreliable? Model VASE · answer so far: a simulation found a recovery signal. The camera results remain separate.

These are different experiments. They have not been joined into one tested model.

How Model VASE fits together →
97.6%

V3 landing success under mixed stress.
Frozen simulation, not a camera-to-control result.

Explore the simulation evidence →

Phase 22: transfer without refitting.

10 / 10 gates passed on the final synthetic 32-cell holdout.

RMSE-surface R²
0.8319
MAE-surface R²
0.7744
Stable-sign accuracy
100%
Frozen record →

Nothing swept out of view.

Reproduce the work →

Independent data: no dataset admitted. Phase 26 remains a separate prospective gate. The original raw-source occlusion sweep remains INCONCLUSIVE after a failed clean gate; the later Q95 result is a separate saved-artifact replay.

See every phase →
View all 13 frozen Phase 12–22 verdicts · 6 PASS / 7 FAIL
Phase 12 → Phase 226 PASS / 7 FAIL

Simulation and benchmark results only. No flight-safety claim, certification claim, or controller-tuning claim.

View the NASA field context Photographs and footage, not AegisLand experiment results
NASA Armstrong · public-domain context · Source ↗
NASA Ames · public-domain context · Source ↗
NASA ACERO aircraft in flight during a separate field test, not an AegisLand experiment
Don Richey / NASA Ames · public-domain context · Source ↗
NASA Ames aircraft approaching a marked pad during a separate field test
NASA Ames · public-domain context · Source ↗