Sarvesh Sortee

Title: Sarvesh Sortee and Autonomous Aircraft Inspection

Introduction

Sarvesh Sortee is an inventor based in Kolkata, India. His patent work describes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system designed to carry out aircraft visual inspections autonomously. He is associated with Tata Consultancy Services Limited.

Latest Patents

Sortee is credited with 1 patent: “Systems and Methods for Performing an Autonomous Aircraft Visual Inspection Task.” The disclosed UAV uses a front-facing RGB-D camera, a 64-channel Velodyne LiDAR sensor, and an inertial measurement unit. It identifies a nearby aircraft landmark through template matching and registers its position to the aircraft’s coordinate system.

During flight, LiDAR and inertial measurements support navigation, while the RGB-D camera gathers inspection data. The system is designed to navigate safely around the aircraft, avoid obstacles, detect objects of interest using deep-learning-based object detection, and inspect them. The disclosure also describes a measuring algorithm for simulated objects of interest.

Career Highlights

Sortee’s patent reflects work at the intersection of autonomous flight, sensor-based navigation, computer vision, and deep learning. The approach combines aircraft-relative positioning with obstacle avoidance and visual inspection in a single UAV workflow.

Collaborations

Sortee is associated with Tata Consultancy Services Limited. Arindam Saha and Mohan Bhaskara are listed as coworkers.

Conclusion

Sarvesh Sortee’s patent presents an integrated UAV approach to aircraft inspection, combining multiple sensors, autonomous navigation, and object detection to support safer and more systematic inspection tasks.