Low-angle light exposes a gap between visible utility lines and usable scene geometry.
Obstacle coverage protects the flight path while the onboard compute budget protects real-time decisions.
Who you’d be doing this for
“The clinic called twice about that return, and I had no delivery window to give them.”
Helena Flores · Transportation Operations Manager
Coordinates urgent replenishment and delivery exceptions across remote receiving facilities.
What is at stake
Utility lines are being treated as open sky in a small set of low-angle-light approaches. You must weigh stronger obstacle recall against the compute budget that keeps onboard decisions timely.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- utility-line recall vs. onboard latency
- conservative trajectories vs. delivery availability
- replay confidence vs. flight-test evidence
- hard-mined cases vs. regression coverage
Why Zipline
Long-range medical and retail deliveries depend on onboard perception that keeps the motion-planning interface reliable in changing real-world light.
Written with these in mind
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This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.