Patent ID: 11880118
Assignee: TOP SEVEN GMBH & CO. KG
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 15:
16. A system for automatically inspecting an object, the system comprising:
an airborne, land or water vehicle, configured to move on a path along an object and to sense a response signal to a stimulus signal within a conductor of the object; and
a processor implemented in hardware and configured to evaluate the signal in order to obtain an information about the conductor,
wherein the object is a wind turbine,
wherein the conductor is a lightning arrester of a rotor of the wind turbine,
wherein the airborne, land or water vehicle is configured to measure the field strength radiated from the lightning arrester for sensing the response signal, and
wherein the inducing of the stimulus signal comprises applying a voltage to the lightning arrester.