Autonomous Wind-Turbine Blade Inspection Using LiDAR-Equipped Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

This paper presents a LiDAR-equipped unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) performing semi-autonomous wind-turbine blade inspection which includes traversing to the blade tip and back, while keeping constant relative distance and heading to the blade plane. Plane detection is performed applying the RANSAC m...

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Main Authors: Marko Car, Lovro Markovic, Antun Ivanovic, Matko Orsag, Stjepan Bogdan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9142230/