AUTONOMOUS UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE BASED INTELLIGENT INSPECTION SYSTEM FOR EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES, AND THE ENVIRONMENT ALONG RAILWAY LINES AND METHOD THEREOF

Abstract: the present invention provides an automatic intelligent inspection system for the equipment, facilities and surrounding environment along a railway line, including an unmanned aerial vehicle (uav), a movable ground base station, a remote server and a working computer, wherein the working computer includes an image processing module that is configured to detect an obtained image by using a deep learning network model trained with a database in advance, obtain any object that is suspected to involve a defect by analysis, and transmit the object for manual review while calculating for the specific geographic coordinate information of the defect, report for early warning after the defect is confirmed by the manual review, inform the operation and maintenance personnel, and store and record the defect. the present invention further provides a method for inspection by using the automatic intelligent inspection system for the equipment, facilities and surrounding environment along a railway.

Inventor(s): Yong QIN, Zhipeng WANG, Huaizhi YANG, Jing CUI, Yixuan GENG, Chongchong YU, Fanteng MENG, Changhong SHAO, Yunpeng WU, Rigen HOU

CPC Classification: B61K9/08 (AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR RAILWAYS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (energy-storing brakes ; protection of permanent way against weather influences ; rail cleaning, snow ploughs ))

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