System and method for automatically inspecting surfaces
AssigneeDonecle
InventorMatthieu Claybrough
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Abstract
The invention relates to a system for automatically inspecting a surface of an object such as an aircraft (54), a transport vehicle, a building or an engineering structure, said surface being liable to contain a defect. The system is characterized in that it comprises a fleet comprising at least one flying robot (14a, 14b, 14c), each flying robot comprising a module for acquiring images of at least one portion of the surface to be inspected, and a module for processing the acquired images, which module is suitable for providing information representative of the state of each inspected surface portion, which information is called the processing result.
Claims12
An automatic inspection system for automatically inspecting a surface of an object, said surface being liable to contain a defect, said system comprising a fleet, comprising at least one flying robot, each flying robot comprising:
- an image acquisition module acquiring images of at least one portion of the surface to be inspected, and
- a processing module processing the acquired images and providing a processing result comprising information representative of the state of each inspected surface portion, and
- a management module managing the fleet of robots, the management module determining, from a model of the surface to be inspected, a set of displacement instructions and image acquisition instructions for each robot of the fleet.
A method for using an automatic inspection comprising:
- determining a set of instructions allocated to each robot of a fleet of robots,
- carrying out a multiplicity of tasks by each robot of the fleet, said tasks comprising at least one acquisition operation of an image of a portion of a surface liable to contain a defect, and at least one processing operation of said image in order to detect a potential defect on the surface,
- transmitting the result of said processing operation of each robot to a presentation device, and
- presenting said processing result to a human operator in said presentation device.
A method for automatically inspecting a surface of an object, said surface being liable to contain a defect, the method comprising:
- acquiring images of at least one portion of the surface to be inspected by each flying robot of a fleet of robots comprising at least one flying robot,
- processing the acquired images in order to provide a processing result comprising information representative of the state of each inspected surface portion, and
- determining, based on a model of the surface to be inspected, a set of displacement instructions and image acquisition instructions for each robot of the fleet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.