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.


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    Title :

    AUTONOMOUS DRONE FOR RAILROAD TRACK INSPECTION


    Contributors:
    QIAN YU (author) / WANG YI (author) / CHEN CHEN (author)

    Publication date :

    2023-09-14


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B64U / B61L Leiten des Eisenbahnverkehrs , GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC / 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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