General Electric Company

Alex Tepper

Ashish Jain

Alok Gupta

John Spirtos

Robert Schwaber

Andrew Chappell

Charles Burton Theurer

Huan Tan

Douglas Roy Forman

Arpit Jain

Mauricio Castillo-Effen

Shiraj Sen

Ghulam Ali Baloch

Yakov Polishchuk

Steven Robert Gray

Yang Zhao

Viktor Holovashchenko

Roberto Silveira Silva Filho

Ching-Ling Huang

Raju Venkataramana

In some embodiments, a meta-data inspection data store may contain hierarchical components and subcomponents of an industrial asset and define points of interest. An industrial asset inspection platform may access that information and generate an inspection plan, including an association of at least one sensor type with each of the points of interest. The platform may then store information about the inspection plan in an inspection plan data store and receive inspection data (e.g., from a manual inspection, from an inspection robot, from a fixed sensor, etc.). A smart tagging algorithm may be executed to associate at least one point of interest with an appropriate portion of the received inspection data based on information in the inspection plan data store.

Intelligent and automated review of industrial asset integrity data

Provided are systems and methods for monitoring an asset via an autonomous model-driven inspection. In an example, the method may include storing an inspection plan including a virtually created three-dimensional (3D) model of a travel path with respect to a virtual asset that is created in virtual space, converting the virtually created 3D model of the travel path about the virtual asset into a physical travel path about a physical asset corresponding to the virtual asset, autonomously controlling vertical and lateral movement of the unmanned robot in three dimensions with respect to the physical asset based on the physical travel path and capturing data at one or more regions of interest, and capturing data at one or more regions of interest, and storing information concerning the captured data about the asset.

Three-dimensional robotic inspection system

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Alex Tepper