Described herein is a fully autonomous drone-based track inspection system that does not rely on GPS but instead uses optical images taken from the drone to identify the railroad track and navigate the drone to cruise along the track to perform track inspection tasks; track images are taken by the onboard drone camera and processed to provide both navigation information for autonomous drone flight control and track component health evaluation.
AUTONOMOUS DRONE FOR RAILROAD TRACK INSPECTION
2023-09-14
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
IPC: | B61L Leiten des Eisenbahnverkehrs , GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC / B64U / G05D SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES , Systeme zum Steuern oder Regeln nichtelektrischer veränderlicher Größen / G06T Bilddatenverarbeitung oder Bilddatenerzeugung allgemein , IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL / G08G Anlagen zur Steuerung, Regelung oder Überwachung des Verkehrs , TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS / H04N PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION , Bildübertragung, z.B. Fernsehen |
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