Reefer Container Inspection Drone: Autonomous Flight Planning in Simulation

Simulation demo of an autonomous container inspection drone system, built for Tow-botic Systems (Upwork engagement). The pipeline auto-generates a Gazebo world from real container stowage data (BAPLIE format), then plans and flies an autonomous inspection path over reefer containers using PX4 SITL and MAVSDK-Python — including wind-sweep testing to validate flight stability under load. Scope of work: • BAPLIE container stowage data parsing for automated flight planning • Procedural Gazebo world generation from parsed container layouts • PX4 SITL wind-sweep analysis to validate flight stability under load • Autonomous reefer inspection path planning using MAVSDK-Python • Tethered drone hardware redesign proposal for continuous-power operation Tech stack: PX4 SITL, MAVSDK-Python, Gazebo, ROS 2 More on this project: https://arnavv456.github.io/portfolio... #PX4 #Gazebo #Drones #UAV #ROS2 #Simulation #Robotics