Patent ID: 11874653
Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B  F  Y | IPC B  F  G

Claim 13:
14. A method of servicing an engine, the method comprising:
at a service location, navigating a robotic assembly, autonomously, to the engine through a first location via an environmental capture device coupled to the robotic assembly, wherein the first location is within an autonomously navigable environment;
inspecting the engine using the robotic assembly;
autonomously capturing information associated with the inspection using the environmental capture device;
at least partially-autonomously performing, using one or more computing devices, analysis on the information to create model information;
sending at least one of the information and model information to an operator located at a second location, wherein the second location is at least 0.25 miles away from the first location, wherein sending the at least one of the information and model information to the operator includes at least partially-autonomously uploading the information to a node which is accessible to the operator; and
at least partially-autonomously completing a repair of the engine at the service location in response to service input received from the operator.