A-UAV: Smarter Eye in the Sky iWave Clean Energy Tech
Channel: BrainChild Innovation
Date: 2018-08-16

Artificial Intelligence & Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Wind Turbine Infrastructure Inspections

Existing wind turbine infrastructure requires ongoing inspections to ensure systems are operating properly and safely. The traditional way of reviewing a wind turbine dataset collected by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) solution has three major issues:
UAV is only an observer
UAV is unable to automatically detect faults in infrastructure
Engineers must review excess photos/videos (Excess data requires more storage and takes more time to review)

Without Artificial Intelligence, UAVs are unable to automatically locate and identify wind turbine infrastructure damage:

Without AI, UAV is merely a camera in the sky 
Limited automated flight planning and no automatic object detection
Operator and UAV spend extra flight time collecting images of entire wind turbine infrastructure

Requires engineer to upload and examine large dataset in order to pinpoint actual problem areas. Once data is uploaded an Inspection Engineer spends up to 45 minutes reviewing one wind turbine dataset.

The Solution:

Device and Cloud-Powered Artificial Intelligence Path Planning and 
Object Detection Algorithms. 

Task-centric Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for long and short range Clean Energy infrastructure inspections.

Our Device and Cloud Powered Artificial Intelligence software automatically detects damage to wind turbine infrastructures and seamlessly communicates vital data directly to inspection engineers.  Our A-UAV communicates with stationary IoT devices for automatic asset geolocation and remote system monitoring.

PC/Mobile Applications, Augmented and Virtual Reality Interfacing
Mobile devices, including tablets, phones, augmented and virtual reality headsets can be used to review inspection datasets and ongoing mission flight details from any location. 

 Credits
www.brainchildinnovation.us

 Design Concept- BrainChild Innovation Founding Team
Intellectual Property- BrainChild Innovation LLC
UAV Design & Flight Footage Steven Silverglate, Aerospace Engineer Intern

Music
"Twisting " Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Special Thanks to Renesas Electronics for providing Qseven Development Kit!