Inspection Drones for Ensuring Safety in Transport Infrastructures

Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Project Website

This deliverable will include the first release of the Project Website that constitute the main public interface to the project. (T8.1)

Documents, reports (2)

Regulatory Gap/Barriers Analysis (initial)

This deliverable will collect and present the outcome of the regulatory analysis and identification of potential gaps and issues in the proposed technologies, to be used as input for guiding the development of the technical WPs and to support the Request of Authorization and/or Permission by the competent National Civil Aviation Authorities in the countries in which the flights will be carried out. (T2.1)

Preliminary Hazard Analysis

This deliverable will present all the hazards identified for the drone swarm-based missions, including recharging from cables, using SORA guidelines. (T2.1)

Other (1)

D4S Project start-up package

Project Handbook placed at the D4S internal software repository. It includes reporting templates, timelines, mailing list ect. (T1.2)

Publications

Conference proceedings (6)

Novel Power Line Grasping Mechanism with Integrated Energy Harvester for UAV applications

Author(s): Nicolai Iversen, Aljaz Kramberger, Oscar Bowen Schofield, Emad Ebeid
Published in: 2021

Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting

Author(s): Gerd vom Boegel
Published in: 2021

Pneumatic-Mechanical Systems in UAVs: Autonomous Power Line Sensor Unit Deployment

Author(s): Nicolai Iversen, Aljaz Kramberger, Oscar Bowen Schofield, Emad Ebeid
Published in: 2021, Page(s) 548-554
DOI: 10.1109/icra48506.2021.9560946

LOCATOR - Lightweight and Low-Cost Autonomous Drone System for Overhead Cable Detection and Soft Grasping

Author(s): Nicolai Iversen, Oscar Bowen Schofield, Emad Ebeid
Published in: 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2020, Page(s) 205-212
DOI: 10.1109/ssrr50563.2020.9292591

Inspection Path Planning for Aerial Vehicles via Sampling-basedSequential Optimization

Author(s): Liping Shi, Golizheh Mehrooz and Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen
Published in: 2021, Page(s) 679-687
DOI: 10.1109/icuas51884.2021.9476784

MP Drone: FPGA-based Platform for Intelligent Real-time Autonomous Drone Operations

Author(s): Nicolai Iversen, Aljaz Kramberger, Oscar Bowen Schofield, Emad Ebeid
Published in: 2021
DOI: 10.1109/ssrr53300.2021.9597857

Peer reviewed articles (2)

A review on communication protocols for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles for inspection application

Author(s): Liping Shi; Néstor J. Hernández Marcano; Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen
Published in: Microprocessors and Microsystems, 2021, ISSN 0141-9331
DOI: 10.1016/j.micpro.2021.104340

On the Queuing Delay of Time-Varying Channels in Low Earth Orbit Satellite Constellations

Author(s): Néstor J. Hernández Marcano; L. Diez; R. Agüero Calvo; Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen
Published in: IEEE Access, 2021, Page(s) 87378 - 87390, ISSN 2169-3536
DOI: 10.1109/access.2021.3089005