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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2016
Applicant:
Donecle, Labege, FR;
Inventor:
Matthieu Claybrough, Ramonville-Saint-Agne, FR;
Assignee:
DONECLE, Labege, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2006.01); G05D 1/10 (2006.01); B64F 5/60 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 39/024 (2013.01); B64F 5/60 (2017.01); G05D 1/0094 (2013.01); G05D 1/104 (2013.01); B64C 2201/12 (2013.01); B64C 2201/123 (2013.01); B64C 2201/143 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention relates to a system for automatically inspecting a surface of an object such as an aircraft (), a transport vehicle, a building or an engineering structure, said surface being liable to contain a defect. The system is characterized in that it comprises a fleet comprising at least one flying robot (), each flying robot comprising a module for acquiring images of at least one portion of the surface to be inspected, and a module for processing the acquired images, which module is suitable for providing information representative of the state of each inspected surface portion, which information is called the processing result.