Structure Image Capture Planning With Feedback for Accurate UAV Surveys
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current image acquisition methods using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) lack feedback mechanisms and systematic approaches to ensure the quality and accuracy of captured images, often resulting in unsatisfactory data that may not meet intended purposes, leading to costly re-takes and delayed information retrieval.
Innovation Solution
The development of improved capture plans that allow for after-the-fact analysis of image acquisition events to determine the effectiveness of the capture plan, enabling adjustments and predictions for subsequent events, incorporating real-time feedback and analysis to ensure the capture plan goals are met.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If traditional capture plans are used without feedback mechanisms, then the system is simpler to operate, but the quality and accuracy of captured images deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms that analyze captured images and provide information about capture plan effectiveness. The system evaluates image quality metrics, compares them against desired outcomes, and uses this feedback to automatically adjust and optimize subsequent capture plans, thereby improving image quality and accuracy without requiring manual intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs self-optimization by automatically analyzing its own capture performance and generating improved capture plans without external intervention. The automated evaluation and adjustment processes enable the system to service itself, continuously improving image quality while maintaining operational simplicity.
2Measurement precision
If comprehensive image analysis is performed to evaluate capture plan effectiveness, then the accuracy of information about structures improves, but the time required for processing increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary analysis during the image capture process itself, evaluating image quality metrics and capture plan effectiveness in real-time or near-real-time. By conducting analysis preliminarily rather than waiting for complete processing, the system reduces overall processing time while maintaining high accuracy in structure information extraction.
3Adaptability or versatility
If manual adjustment of capture plans is performed, then flexibility and adaptability improve, but productivity and efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The automated feedback system provides real-time evaluation of capture plan effectiveness, enabling the system to adapt and adjust capture plans automatically based on performance metrics. This automated adaptation maintains the flexibility and versatility of manual adjustment while dramatically improving productivity by eliminating time-consuming manual intervention.
4Reliability
If multiple image acquisition events are conducted to ensure quality, then the reliability of captured data improves, but the loss of time and resources increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary evaluation of image quality and capture plan effectiveness during the acquisition process itself. By identifying quality issues preliminarily and making adjustments within the same or subsequent acquisition events, the system reduces the need for multiple re-takes, thereby improving data reliability while minimizing time loss.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure relates to improvements in systems and methods in acquiring images via a imaging devices, where such imaging devices can be configured, in some implementations, with an unmanned aerial vehicle or other vehicle types, as well as being hand-held. Images are acquired from the imaging devices according to capture plans where useful information types about a structure of interest (or objects, items, etc.) can be derived from a structure image acquisition event. Images acquired from capture plans can be evaluated to generate improvements in capture plans for use in subsequent structure image acquisition events. Capture plans provided herein generate accurate information as to all or part of the structure of interest, where accuracy is in relation to the real-life structure incorporated in the acquired images.