A method and system for detecting foreign object debris (FOD) from an UAV is disclosed herein. The UAV comprises avionics, an airframe, a location sensor, an attitude sensor, an intelligent payload comprising an edge processor capable of executing a machine learning model, at least one gimballed camera sensor, a data connection to the UAV avionics, and a data connection to a ground based data center.
Automatic foreign object debris inspection system
2025-04-15
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64U / G08B SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS , Signalisier- oder Rufsysteme / B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge / G06T Bilddatenverarbeitung oder Bilddatenerzeugung allgemein , IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL / H04N PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION , Bildübertragung, z.B. Fernsehen / G06F ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING , Elektrische digitale Datenverarbeitung |