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

Claim 17:
18. A non-transitory digital storage medium having a computer program stored thereon to perform a computer-implemented method of determining a path along an object, said method comprising:
moving an airborne, land or water vehicle on a path along the object;
inducing a stimulus signal in a conductor of the object, wherein the conductor is arranged at or underneath a surface of the object;
sensing a response signal to the stimulus signal within the conductor using the airborne, land or water vehicle; and
evaluating 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 sensing of the response signal comprises measuring the field strength radiated from the lightning arrester, and
wherein the inducing of the stimulus signal comprises applying a voltage to the lightning arrester.