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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2024
The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Gregory James Sweers, Renton, WA (US);
James J. Troy, Issaquah, WA (US);
Gary E. Georgeson, Tacoma, WA (US);
THE BOEING COMPANY, Arlington, VA (US);
Abstract
A method includes obtaining, at an unmanned aerial vehicle, a flight plan for the unmanned aerial vehicle. The flight plan is based on an aircraft type of an aircraft to be inspected. The method also includes coordinating, with a control device onboard the aircraft, an operation of a particular device of the aircraft based on the flight plan such that a state of the particular device changes when a particular sensor of the one or more sensors is located (i.e., positioned and oriented) to perform a sensing operation on the particular exterior light. The method further includes performing the sensing operation on the particular device using the particular sensor. The method also includes determining a functionality metric associated with the particular device based on the sensing operation.