Sensitive area management
AssigneeInternational Electronic Machines Corp.
InventorZahid F. Mian
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Abstract
An unmanned mobile observation device, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle, can be used to acquire observation data for a sensitive area. The observation data can include image data and geolocation data corresponding to a real-world geographic location at which the image data was acquired. The geolocation data can be accurate to five centimeters or less. The observation data can be evaluated to identify any defects within the sensitive area. Such evaluation can include comparison with previously acquired image data for the sensitive area, which can be enables by using the geolocation data to select the corresponding previously acquired image data.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- an unmanned mobile observation device, the unmanned mobile monitoring device including:
- an imaging component configured to acquire image data of an improvement being monitored;
- a navigation component configured to determine a real-world geographic location of the unmanned mobile observation device and navigate the unmanned mobile observation device to an image acquisition geographic location suitable for acquiring the image data of the improvement being monitored;
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- a geolocation component configured to determine a real-world geographic location of the unmanned mobile observation device to an accuracy of five centimeters or less when the imaging component acquires the image data, wherein the geolocation component is configured to automatically refine an accuracy of the determined real-world geographic location using correction signal data acquired from a real-world geographic location signal source, and wherein geolocation data corresponding to the real-world geographic location is stored with image data acquired by the imaging component as observation data for the improvement being monitored.
An unmanned aerial vehicle, including:
- an imaging component configured to acquire image data of an area being monitored, wherein the imaging component includes:
- an imaging device configured to acquire image data of the area;
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- a deblurring component configured to remove distortion from the image data acquired by the imaging device using inertial data of the unmanned aerial vehicle synchronized with the image data acquisition by the imaging device;
- a navigation component configured to navigate the unmanned aerial vehicle to an image acquisition geographic location suitable for acquiring the image data of the area being monitored;
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- a geolocation component configured to determine a real-world geographic location of the unmanned aerial vehicle to an accuracy of five centimeters or less when the imaging component acquires the image data, wherein geolocation data corresponding to the real-world geographic location is stored with image data acquired by the imaging component as observation data for the area being monitored.
A system for managing a sensitive area, the system comprising:
- an unmanned aerial vehicle, including:
- an imaging component configured to acquire image data of an area being monitored, wherein the imaging component includes:
- an imaging device configured to acquire image data of the area;
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- a deblurring component configured to remove distortion from the image data acquired by the imaging device using inertial data of the unmanned aerial vehicle synchronized with the image data acquisition by the imaging device;
- a navigation component configured to navigate the unmanned aerial vehicle to an image acquisition geographic location suitable for acquiring the image data of the area being monitored;
- a geolocation component configured to determine a real-world geographic location of the unmanned aerial vehicle to an accuracy of one centimeter or less when the imaging component acquires the image data, wherein geolocation data corresponding to the real-world geographic location is stored with image data acquired by the imaging component as observation data for the area being monitored;
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- a monitoring component configured to compare the image data to previously acquired image data using the geolocation data for the image data and the previously acquired image data and generate defect data for each defect found as a result of the image data comparison;
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- a sensitive area management system that schedules personnel based on the defect data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.