Aircraft survey system and method for determining information about an aircraft
A survey system, aircraft technology, applied in the field of aircraft inspection, can solve the problems of human transcription errors, unreliability, etc.
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[0028] This example describes an exemplary aircraft survey system (see figure 1 ).
[0029] figure 1 is a schematic diagram of an aircraft survey system generally indicated at 100 . Aircraft survey system 100 may include unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) 102 and base station 104 . UAV 102 may communicate wirelessly with a base station. Aircraft survey system 100 may be configured to inspect or survey aircraft 106 . The UAV may fly along a survey route 108 approaching the aircraft.
[0030] UAV 102 may include one or more sensors 109 (such as visible light cameras, proximity detectors, radio frequency identification (RFID) readers, or other suitable sensors). When activated, the UAV can use one of the sensors (such as a camera or a proximity detector) to detect the closest aircraft to the base station. The UAV may be configured to record one or more images of the aircraft and to transmit a signal representing the images to a base station. The base station may be configured t...
example 2
[0037] This example describes another exemplary aircraft survey system (see figure 2 ). figure 2 is a block diagram of an aircraft survey system generally indicated at 200 . The aircraft survey system 100 described above may be an implementation of the aircraft survey system 200 . Aircraft survey system 200 may be configured to determine information about aircraft 202 . Aircraft survey system 200 may include unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) 204 and base station 206 .
[0038] Aircraft 202 may include information 208 such as model type identification data 210 associated with the aircraft model type and / or registration number 212 . Information 208 may be displayed visually as, for example, aircraft identification markings on the tail of the aircraft, on the wings of the aircraft, or on a portion of the fuselage of the aircraft. Information 208 may alternatively be encoded into a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag provided on board the aircraft.
[0039] Aircraft 202 m...
example 3
[0063] This example describes an exemplary set of operations performed in determining information about an aircraft (see image 3 ). image 3 is a view of operations indicated generally at 300 that may be performed in a method of determining information about an aircraft. Some or all of operations 300 may be performed by a base station of an aircraft survey system, such as base station 104 of aircraft survey system 100 or base station 206 of aircraft survey system 200 . Some or all of operations 300 may be performed by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) of an aircraft survey system, such as UAV 102 or UAV 204 . Some or all of operations 300 may be performed in circuitry of a first processor of a base station, where the first processor may execute a first set of computer readable program instructions. Some or all of operations 300 may be performed in circuitry of a second processor of the UAV, where the second processor may execute a second set of computer-readable program inst...
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