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US 2020/0004272 A1Published application
System and method for intelligent aerial inspection
AssigneeSkyyfish, LLC
InventorOrest Jacob Pilskalns
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Abstract
A flight plan for an unmanned aerial vehicle is created based on a target to inspect. The plan can be based on the data obtained from one or more prior inspection flights for the same target. Flight plans can be automatically suggested to the users based on the analysis of data obtained during prior inspection flights.
Claims21
A method for aerially inspecting a target, comprising the steps of:
- receiving, by a control device, identification of the target;
- by the control device, receiving a path for inspecting the target and generating a flight plan based on the path, said flight plan comprising flight meta-data;
- transmitting the flight plan to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV);
- by the UAV, executing the flight plan, collecting data associated with the target, aggregating flight meta-data with the collected data, and transferring the flight meta-data and collected data from the UAV to the control device;
- and
- processing the data and meta-data to create a digital 3D model of the target.
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The method of claim 14, wherein the preliminary model comprises a series of images each labeled with a face of the target to which the image corresponds and embedded with a scale.
A system for aerially inspecting a target, which comprises:
- an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV);
- a server;
- a control device;
- wherein the control device is configured to:
- receive identification of the target;
- receive a path for inspecting the target;
- generate a flight plan based on the path;
- and
- transmit the flight plan to the UAV;
- wherein the UAV is configured to:
- execute the flight plan;
- collect data relating to the target;
- aggregate flight meta-data with the collected data;
- receive the flight meta-data and collected data from the UAV and transfer it to the server;
- and,
- wherein the server is configured to process the flight meta-data and collected data to create a digital 3D model of the target.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.