Probabilistic Landing Capability

• Probabilistic landing capability is a framework that models landing safety, site suitability, and controller performance as probability distributions rather than fixed binary outcomes.
• It integrates multi-altitude imagery, Bayesian updating, and Gaussian process models to assess environmental conditions and sensor uncertainties for real-time decision-making.
• Applications include urban emergency landings, maritime touchdowns, and reusable-rocket guidance, emphasizing rigorous statistical validation and runtime assurance under uncertainty.

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^^^^36all:\36^^^^. Conceptual scope and formal meanings

A first meaning of probabilistic landing capability is site suitability inference. In the urban multi-resolution formulation, the ground region PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36query36^^^^ is discretized into cells PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36all:\36^^^^, each associated with a binary landing hypothesis PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36 OR ti:\36^^^^ and a latent fitness variable PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36^^^^. The system does not observe suitability directly; instead it maintains a probability distribution over PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36max_results36^^^^, updates it as imagery is acquired from multiple altitudes, and declares a site acceptable when posterior confidence exceeds a threshold (&&&^^^^36query36^^^^&&&). Closely related formulations define a latent binary safety variable PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36sort_by36^^^^ for each candidate region and recursively update the posterior belief PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36submittedDate36^^^^ from noisy geometric cues such as flatness, slope, and obstacle proximity (&&&^^^^36 OR ti:\36^^^^&&&).

A second meaning is controller capability under uncertainty. In Bayesian deployment validation, landing capability is defined as the true but unknown probability

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where PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36descending36^^^^ is a multi-constraint safe-touchdown event and probability is taken over initial states, disturbances, stochastic dynamics, and policy randomness. Here the landing capability is not a map over space but a single population-level Bernoulli parameter inferred from finite rollout data (&&&^^^^36all:\36^^^^&&&).

A third meaning is uncertainty-aware guidance feasibility. In distributed MPC for landing on a surface vessel in waves, the uncertain quantity is the spatial-temporal tilt field PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36query36^^^^, modeled as a Gaussian Process over platform position and time. The controller uses the GP mean and variance to choose where and when to land, treating low expected tilt and low epistemic uncertainty as favorable conditions (&&&^^^^36sort_order36^^^^&&&). In reusable-rocket guidance, probabilistic landing capability is tied to terminal-state dispersion and is formalized through constraints such as

PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36all:\36query36^^^^

so that landing accuracy is specified directly in probabilistic terms (&&&^^^^36all:\36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36^^^^&&&).

A fourth meaning is probabilistic runtime assurance. In runway-pose estimation, each detected correspondence point is modeled as a Gaussian PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36all:\36all:\36^^^^, and the downstream integrity monitor tests whether the set of probabilistic keypoints is geometrically self-consistent with the runway model. In this setting, probabilistic landing capability is inseparable from calibrated predictive uncertainty and fault rejection (&&&^^^^36descending36^^^^&&&).

^^^^36 OR ti:\36^^^^. Probabilistic landing-site assessment

The most developed site-assessment formulation is the multi-altitude urban approach. The environment is partitioned into landing cells, and each cell begins with a Beta prior PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36all:\36 OR ti:\36^^^^, initialized from a labeled DSM with PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36all:\36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36^^^^ cells. Observations are obtained by semantic segmentation of RGB imagery at ^^^^^^^^36descending36^^^^^^^^ altitudes PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36all:\36max_results36^^^^, which trades large footprint at high altitude against high spatial resolution at low altitude. For each cell, pixel-level landing probabilities are converted into a conservative Bernoulli trial PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36all:\36sort_by36^^^^: the trial is a success only if more than PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36all:\36submittedDate36^^^^ of mapped pixels satisfy PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36all:\36sort_order36^^^^. With independent trials, the posterior remains Beta,

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and a landing declaration is made when PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36all:\36query36^^^^ for chosen fitness and confidence thresholds (&&&^^^^36query36^^^^&&&).

That formulation also introduces a Generalized Bernoulli Distribution to address correlation across altitude levels. The next observation probability is written as

PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36 OR ti:\36query36^^^^

so that PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36 OR ti:\36all:\36^^^^ controls the dependence of a new high-resolution trial on earlier lower-resolution evidence. This preserves the underlying idea that landing suitability is a latent probability, but it relaxes the unrealistic assumption that multi-altitude observations are i.i.d. (&&&^^^^36query36^^^^&&&).

A geometrically distinct, but conceptually similar, line of work models landing safety at the region level. In the evidence-based RGB-D system, each candidate region PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36 OR ti:\36 OR ti:\36^^^^ has latent state PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36 OR ti:\36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36^^^^, and a first-order Markov model with persistence parameter PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36 OR ti:\36max_results36^^^^ produces the prediction

PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36 OR ti:\36sort_by36^^^^

followed by Bayes correction with safe and unsafe likelihoods PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36 OR ti:\36submittedDate36^^^^ and PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36 OR ti:\36sort_order36^^^^: PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36 OR ti:\36descending36^^^^ A hard geometric feasibility constraint PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36 OR ti:\36query36^^^^ rejects regions that look semantically plausible but are physically too small. Final site choice is a constrained MAP estimate over feasible regions, optionally requiring PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36query36^^^^ (&&&^^^^36 OR ti:\36^^^^&&&).

SafeLand extends the Bayesian-map perspective to unknown dynamic environments using only a camera and a lightweight AGL sensor. A SegFormer MiT-B^^^^36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36^^^^ network produces a semantic probability volume, which is projected to a metric ground map and fused over time. For each cell and class,

PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36all:\36^^^^

after which temporal semantic decay is applied: PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36 OR ti:\36^^^^ The filtered map is converted to a safe-class mask, a distance transform is computed, and a landing center is chosen by

PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36^^^^

With PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36max_results36^^^^, ^^^^36 OR ti:\36query36query36^^^^ simulations and ^^^^36submittedDate36query36^^^^ field tests, the system reports zero false negatives for human detection and a ^^^^36query36sort_by36^^^^% success rate (&&&^^^^36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36^^^^&&&).

A related but non-Bayesian approximation uses semantic risk maps rather than explicit posterior beliefs. There, semantic segmentation is converted into discrete risk levels, accumulated conservatively by a pixel-wise temporal maximum in a global map, expanded by altitude-dependent Gaussian filtering and dilation, and combined with distance-to-footprint in a scalar objective PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36sort_by36^^^^. The method is described as not explicitly probabilistic, but as approximating probabilistic reasoning through semantic risk scoring, conservative temporal fusion, and temporal landing-point stabilization (&&&^^^^36all:\36query36^^^^&&&).

^^^^36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36^^^^. Controller-level capability and deployment approval

A distinct literature uses probabilistic landing capability to evaluate controllers rather than sites. In this setting, a safe touchdown event PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36submittedDate36^^^^ is defined as the intersection of multiple terminal constraints, including touchdown position error, vertical speed, pitch, horizontal speed, and contact indicators. Rollout PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36sort_order36^^^^ yields a Bernoulli outcome

PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36descending36^^^^

where PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36query36^^^^ is the unknown deployment capability of policy PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36max_results36query36^^^^ (&&&^^^^36all:\36^^^^&&&).

With a Beta prior PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36max_results36all:\36^^^^, finite-rollout evidence PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36max_results36 OR ti:\36^^^^ produces the posterior

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The central deployment quantity is the posterior approval probability

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together with posterior false-approval risk PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36max_results36sort_by36^^^^. Approval, rejection, and continuation are handled by the three-way rule

PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36max_results36submittedDate36^^^^

In the reported protocol, PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36max_results36sort_order36^^^^, PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36max_results36descending36^^^^, PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36max_results36query36^^^^, with a minimum evidence safeguard PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36sort_by36query36^^^^ and a budget PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36sort_by36all:\36^^^^ (&&&^^^^36all:\36^^^^&&&).

This formulation directly exposes a central misconception in empirical landing evaluation: finite-sample success rate PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36sort_by36 OR ti:\36^^^^ is not itself a confidence-calibrated statement about deployment readiness. The paper emphasizes that PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36sort_by36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36^^^^ successes and PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36sort_by36max_results36^^^^ successes both yield PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36sort_by36sort_by36^^^^ but do not represent the same posterior evidence. In the experiments, PPO-^^^^36all:\36query36^^^^M reached PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36sort_by36submittedDate36^^^^ yet had PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36sort_by36sort_order36^^^^, whereas SAC-^^^^36 OR ti:\36^^^^M reached PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36sort_by36descending36^^^^ and was approved under the same rule (&&&^^^^36all:\36^^^^&&&).

This controller-level interpretation also makes explicit that probabilistic landing capability is operating-distribution dependent. Capability is defined under a specified distribution of initial states, disturbances, stochastic dynamics, and policy randomness, and changes in that distribution alter the meaning of PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36sort_by36query36^^^^. The same paper therefore treats Bayesian approval as a deployment-oriented statistical layer on top of reward optimization rather than as a replacement for training objectives (&&&^^^^36all:\36^^^^&&&).

^^^^36max_results36^^^^. Guidance, optimization, and probabilistic control

In moving-platform landing, probabilistic landing capability enters the controller through a learned environmental field. The distributed MPC framework for multirotor landing on a vessel in waves defines a tilt field PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36submittedDate36query36^^^^ and models PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36submittedDate36all:\36^^^^ with a Gaussian Process using a squared exponential kernel. The platform MPC minimizes a tilt cost

PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36submittedDate36 OR ti:\36^^^^

so it seeks spatial goals with low expected tilt and low uncertainty over a wave period, while the UAV MPC uses a time-indexed tilt cost to select favorable touchdown timing. In indoor experiments, the full method yielded a ^^^^36sort_by36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36^^^^% increase in landing success compared to a cooperative baseline that neglected tilt motion (&&&^^^^36sort_order36^^^^&&&).

Reusable-rocket guidance pushes the probabilistic formulation further by predicting and actively shaping terminal dispersion. Disturbances are encoded by a parameterized random vector PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36submittedDate36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36^^^^ affecting thrust, attitude tracking, aerodynamic coefficients, density, and vertical wind profile. A Parameterized Optimal Feedback Guidance Law is combined with generalized Polynomial Chaos and pseudospectral collocation to predict closed-loop mean and variance online. The terminal probabilistic constraint

PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36submittedDate36max_results36^^^^

is then approximated by deterministic mean PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36submittedDate36sort_by36^^^^ inequalities, and guidance parameters are tuned in real time by projected gradient descent. The reported dispersion prediction matches ^^^^36all:\36query36query36query36^^^^-sample Monte Carlo while requiring about PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36submittedDate36submittedDate36^^^^ ms per prediction step, and online tuning is shown to meet tighter PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36submittedDate36sort_order36^^^^ landing-accuracy requirements than the offline design (&&&^^^^36all:\36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36^^^^&&&).

Set-based predictive control yields another explicit probabilistic guarantee. In the constrained-zonotope framework, stochastic navigation and actuation uncertainties are mapped into ellipsoidal disturbance sets via chi-square confidence regions. Choosing per-step confidence so that PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36submittedDate36descending36^^^^ leads to bounded disturbance sets PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36submittedDate36query36^^^^ such that the robust controllable tube guarantees terminal-set inclusion with probability at least PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36sort_order36query36^^^^. In the precision-landing case study, PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36sort_order36all:\36^^^^ is used, and ^^^^36all:\36query36query36^^^^ Monte Carlo runs all terminate inside the true terminal set, exceeding the prescribed guarantee (&&&^^^^36 OR ti:\36submittedDate36^^^^&&&).

Other guidance formulations remain empirical rather than explicitly probabilistic but still define landing capability through trajectory dispersion. Successive convexification for parafoil landing uses ^^^^36submittedDate36query36query36^^^^ Monte Carlo runs under stochastic Dryden wind and varying initial conditions to characterize landing error statistics; the method reports performance improvements of about one order of magnitude relative to the X-^^^^36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36descending36^^^^ heritage guidance system (&&&^^^^36 OR ti:\36sort_order36^^^^&&&). Probabilistic Markov models for proximity operations use mode-transition probabilities, Mahalanobis-distance-based consistency checks, and covariance-dependent switching to decide when a UAV should leave an energy-optimal approach and enter a vision-dominant precision-landing regime (&&&^^^^36 OR ti:\36descending36^^^^&&&).

^^^^36sort_by36^^^^. Perception uncertainty, symbolic reasoning, and runtime assurance

Probabilistic landing capability is increasingly tied to calibrated perception rather than only to terrain or controller models. In runway-pose estimation, each correspondence point is modeled as

PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36sort_order36 OR ti:\36^^^^

with means produced by a spatial Soft Argmax head and variances trained by Gaussian negative log-likelihood. The resulting uncertainty is used both to weight PnP pose estimation and to construct a residual-based RAIM test,

PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36sort_order36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36^^^^

whose nominal behavior is approximated by a chi-squared law. The same model reports sub-pixel precision, typical predicted standard deviation of about one pixel, and runtime of ^^^^36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36query36^^^^–^^^^36submittedDate36query36^^^^ Hz for ^^^^36 OR ti:\36 OR ti:\36max_results36^^^^×^^^^36 OR ti:\36 OR ti:\36max_results36^^^^ crops, showing that calibrated uncertainty can be integrated into real-time landing perception and integrity monitoring (&&&^^^^36descending36^^^^&&&).

A complementary line of work uses explicit symbolic reasoning on top of probabilistic scene representations. NEUROSYMLAND builds a Probabilistic Semantic Scene Graph PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36sort_order36max_results36^^^^ from monocular RGB input, grounds semantic and geometric predicates as weighted facts, and applies probabilistic logic rules in Scallop to derive PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36sort_order36sort_by36^^^^ and PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36sort_order36submittedDate36^^^^ for candidate landing regions. Multi-frame validation is formalized as

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and final ranking is

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Across ^^^^36sort_order36 OR ti:\36^^^^ simulated scenarios it achieved ^^^^36submittedDate36all:\36^^^^ successful assessments, outperforming baselines at ^^^^36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36sort_order36^^^^–^^^^36sort_by36sort_order36^^^^ successes, and in ^^^^36all:\36query36query36^^^^ hardware-in-the-loop trials symbolic reasoning consumed PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36sort_order36query36^^^^ ms out of PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36descending36query36^^^^ ms total frame time on Jetson Orin Nano (&&&^^^^36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36query36^^^^&&&).

These perception-side methods complement the earlier map-based systems by separating probabilistic evidence accumulation from execution. In the RGB-D landing framework, once a region is selected by constrained MAP, ORB feature tracking and IBVS execute the descent with

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where PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36descending36 OR ti:\36^^^^ in experiments. The probabilistic module determines where and when to commit; the servoing module then performs deterministic alignment and descent (&&&^^^^36 OR ti:\36^^^^&&&). This separation between uncertainty-aware decision-making and lower-level control recurs across recent systems.

^^^^36submittedDate36^^^^. Evaluation regimes, limitations, and domain breadth

Evaluation of probabilistic landing capability is heterogeneous because the object of inference differs by paper. Site-assessment works emphasize closed-loop simulation, map evolution, and field or laboratory landings; the urban multi-resolution method is demonstrated in AirSim with realistic closed-loop examples (&&&^^^^36query36^^^^&&&), the evidence-based RGB-D system is validated in Nvidia Isaac Sim and laboratory experiments (&&&^^^^36 OR ti:\36^^^^&&&), and SafeLand combines ^^^^36 OR ti:\36query36query36^^^^ simulations with ^^^^36submittedDate36query36^^^^ field tests (&&&^^^^36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36^^^^&&&). Controller-validation papers emphasize posterior inference under finite rollouts rather than vehicle deployment alone (&&&^^^^36all:\36^^^^&&&). Guidance papers rely on Monte Carlo landing dispersion, disturbance-set reachability, or platform-motion experiments (&&&^^^^36 OR ti:\36sort_order36^^^^&&&, &&&^^^^36sort_order36^^^^&&&, &&&^^^^36 OR ti:\36submittedDate36^^^^&&&).

Across these works, several limitations recur. Capability is often defined relative to a fixed operating-condition distribution, so distribution shift changes its meaning and may invalidate calibration or approval conclusions (&&&^^^^36all:\36^^^^&&&). Many site-assessment systems still depend heavily on simulated data, hand-designed likelihoods, or curated semantic taxonomies, and several assume static environments except for limited treatment of humans or vehicles (&&&^^^^36query36^^^^&&&, &&&^^^^36 OR ti:\36^^^^&&&, &&&^^^^36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36^^^^&&&). Runtime-assurance methods require calibrated uncertainties and can degrade under correlation, out-of-distribution perception, or poor world models (&&&^^^^36descending36^^^^&&&, &&&^^^^36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36query36^^^^&&&). Explicit worst-case guarantees remain uncommon outside robust set-based and chance-constrained formulations (&&&^^^^36 OR ti:\36submittedDate36^^^^&&&, &&&^^^^36all:\36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36^^^^&&&).

The term also spans a broad application space. In planetary rotorcraft, multi-resolution elevation maps with Gaussian height variance provide a probabilistic backend for slope-, roughness-, and confidence-based site screening (&&&^^^^36max_results36sort_order36^^^^&&&). In endoatmospheric reusable-rocket landing, probabilistic capability is tied to terminal dispersion control under structured disturbances (&&&^^^^36all:\36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36^^^^&&&). In maritime robotics, it denotes wave-aware touchdown timing and spatial selection under GP uncertainty (&&&^^^^36sort_order36^^^^&&&). In air traffic management, the same phrase extends to landing-time prediction, where each aircraft’s landing time is modeled as a Gaussian distribution conditioned on multi-agent terminal-area trajectories, yielding explicit uncertainty rather than a point ETA (&&&^^^^36sort_by36query36^^^^&&&). A related, earlier viewpoint models nominal approach and landing behavior itself as a probabilistic tunnel learned by Gaussian Processes, so that staying inside the tunnel becomes a probabilistic indicator of stable approach dynamics (&&&^^^^36sort_by36all:\36^^^^&&&).

Taken together, the literature shows that probabilistic landing capability is not a single algorithmic pattern but a unifying principle: landing should be judged, selected, guided, and approved through quantified uncertainty. Whether the latent variable is a terrain-patch fitness PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36descending36 AND (cat:cs.RO OR cat:cs.CV OR cat:eess.SY)36^^^^, a region-level safety state PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36descending36max_results36^^^^, a rollout reliability parameter PRESERVED_PLACEHOLDER_^^^^36descending36sort_by36^^^^, a GP-predicted tilt field, a terminal dispersion distribution, or a calibrated keypoint covariance, the objective is the same—turn landing from a binary actuation problem into a statistically explicit decision problem whose confidence can be updated, tested, and acted upon.