Inspection of aircraft wing panels using unmanned aerial vehicles

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dc.contributor.authorTzitzilonis, Vasileios
dc.contributor.authorMalandrakis, Konstantinos
dc.contributor.authorZanotti Fragonara, Luca
dc.contributor.authorGonzalez Domingo, Jose Angel
dc.contributor.authorAvdelidis, Nicolas Peter
dc.contributor.authorTsourdos, Antonios
dc.contributor.authorForster, Kevin
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-08T10:55:32Z
dc.date.available2019-05-08T10:55:32Z
dc.date.issued2019-04-17
dc.description.abstractIn large civil aircraft manufacturing, a time-consuming post-production process is the non-destructive inspection of wing panels. This work aims to address this challenge and improve the defects’ detection by performing automated aerial inspection using a small off-the-shelf multirotor. The UAV is equipped with a wide field-of-view camera and an ultraviolet torch for implementing non-invasive imaging inspection. In particular, the UAV is programmed to perform the complete mission and stream video, in real-time, to the ground control station where the defects’ detection algorithm is executed. The proposed platform was mathematically modelled in MATLAB/SIMULINK in order to assess the behaviour of the system using a path following method during the aircraft wing inspection. In addition, two defect detection algorithms were implemented and tested on a dataset containing images obtained during inspection at Airbus facilities. The results show that for the current dataset the proposed methods can identify all the images containing defects.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationTzitzilonis V, Malandrakis K, Zanotti Fragonara L, et al., (2019) Inspection of aircraft wing panels using unmanned aerial vehicles. Sensors, Volume 19, Issue 8, 2019, Article number 1824en_UK
dc.identifier.cris23428412
dc.identifier.issn1424-8220
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/s19081824
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/14139
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherMDPIen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectNon-Destructive Testingen_UK
dc.subjectultraviolet lighten_UK
dc.subjectautomated inspectionen_UK
dc.subjectdefects detectionen_UK
dc.subjectUAVen_UK
dc.subjectimage processingen_UK
dc.titleInspection of aircraft wing panels using unmanned aerial vehiclesen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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