Project name: Autonomous UAV inspection of wind turbine blades
Project acronym: AeroWind
Dates: 05/2020 - 11/2021
Total budget: 199.031,00 EUR
Funding: EU Horizon 2020 - ESMERA
Grant Contract Agreement: 780265
Website: http://www.esmera-project.eu/welcome/

 


Hundreds of thousands of hard to reach wind turbine blades must be inspected yearly in Europe and around the world and existing visual inspection methods are rather slow, inaccurate, costly and require complex coordination and logistics between UAV operators, turbine operators and in case of the offshore environment also marine coordination centers, support vessel crew, and others involved entities.

This project, which is built on previous research done by LARICS through FP7 project EuRoC, will result in:

i) implementation of novel methods for UAVs navigation and control, based on state-of-the-art technologies (e.g. stereo-vision systems, LIDARs, depth cameras),

ii) increase in the speed and efficiency of wind turbine inspection, and

iii) a significant decrease in the cost of inspection and downtime of wind turbines.

The project partner is Helvetis SA from Switzerland.


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[^] LARICS at Pometeno brdo wind farm Published 2021-08-30 at 16:31  ( Stjepan Bogdan )
[^] AeroWind gets in Phase II ! Published 2021-08-30 at 16:22  ( Stjepan Bogdan )
[^] Successful demonstration of the AeroWind concept Published 2021-08-30 at 16:11  ( Stjepan Bogdan )
[^] LARICS at Pometeno brdo wind farm Published 2020-12-03 at 17:03  ( Stjepan Bogdan ) Edited: 2021-08-30 at 15:02  (Ana Golec)
[^] Successful execution of preliminary experiments Published 2020-11-12 at 10:35  ( Stjepan Bogdan )