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US 12,345,231 B2Granted
Method of imaging a wind turbine rotor blade
AssigneeSiemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S
InventorsMaxim Karatajew, Lars Holm Nielsen
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Abstract
A wind turbine rotor blade imaging arrangement is provided, including a multi-axis gimbal mounted to the exterior of the wind turbine and configured to adjust its orientation in response to one or more received settings; a camera mounted on the multi-axis gimbal and arranged to capture images of a rotor blade; an image analysis unit configured to analyze the captured images; and a camera orientation controller configured to compute updated gimbal settings on the basis of the image analysis output.
Claims15
A wind turbine rotor blade imaging arrangement, comprising:
- a multi-axis gimbal mounted to the exterior of the wind turbine and configured to adjust its orientation in response to one or more received gimbal settings wherein the gimbal settings comprise any of a pitch angle, a roll angle, a yaw angle;
- a camera mounted on the multi-axis gimbal and arranged to capture images of a rotor blade;
- an image analysis unit configured to analyze the captured images and generating image analysis output out;
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- a camera orientation controller configured to compute updated gimbal settings on the basis of the image analysis output.
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