Project description
Drones rise up to challenge of bridge and railway inspections
Drones are being used to perform inspections of roadways and railways. Industrial, research and academic experts in infrastructure inspection, energy harvesting, artificial intelligence, communications, and drone technology are joining forces to help increase the safety of the European civil transport system. Through the EU-funded Drones4Safety project, they are building a cooperative, autonomous, self-recharging and continuously operating drone system for autonomous, accurate and frequent inspections of transport infrastructures. This new system will be made available to railway and bridge operators to remotely monitor the status of their infrastructures and notifying them if a fault is detected. The project will use satellite and open maps, and will develop and improve artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to optimise inspection results. Drones4Safety's outcomes will be presented to transportation operators in the form of software services and hardware drone systems.
Field of science
- /social sciences/social and economic geography/transport
- /engineering and technology/electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering/electronic engineering/robotics/autonomous robots/drones
- /natural sciences/computer and information sciences/artificial intelligence
Call for proposal
H2020-MG-2019-TwoStages
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
5230 Odense M
Denmark
Participants (8)
8000 Aarhus C
80686 Munchen
27100 Pavia
31670 Labege
00155 Roma
41844 Monchengladbach
00193 Roma
1130 Bruxelles
