公开(公告)号：US20210181722A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-17

申请号：US17186215

申请日：2021-02-26

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Huan Tan ,  Li Zhang ,  Romano Patrick ,  Viktor Holovashchenko ,  Charles Burton Theurer ,  John Michael Lizzi, JR. ,  Arpit Jain ,  Shiraj Sen ,  Todd William Danko ,  Kori U. MacDonald

IPC: G05B19/418 ,  B25J9/16 ,  G08G5/00 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L29/08

Abstract: The present approach relates to streaming data derived from inspection data acquired using one or more robots performing inspections of an asset or assets. Such inspections may be fully or partially automated, such as being controlled by one or more computer-based routines, and may be planned or dynamically altered in response to inputs or requirements associated with an end-user of the inspection data, such as a subscriber to the data in a publication/subscription distribution scheme. Thus, an inspection may be planned or altered based on the data needs or subscription levels of the user or customers.

公开(公告)号：US10927818B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-23

申请号：US16192807

申请日：2018-11-16

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Shiraj Sen ,  Todd William Danko ,  John Robert Hoare ,  Charles Burton Theurer ,  Douglas Forman ,  Judith Ann Guzzo

IPC: F03D17/00 ,  F03D80/50 ,  B25J11/00 ,  G01M11/08

Abstract: A system and method for inspecting, repairing and upgrading wind turbine rotor blades of a wind turbine. The system including deploying one or more cables via an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a balloon, a ballistic mechanism or a catapult to position the one or more cables in draping engagement with a portion of the wind turbine. A climbing robot is positioned to ascend the one or more cables and perform a task related to inspecting for indications, repair of indications or upgrading the rotor blade. A slave robot system, disposed at the base location and anchored to the one or more cables, provides modulation of the cables for positioning of the climbing robot relative to the wind turbine as it ascends and descends the one or more cables. After completion of the task, the climbing robot descends the one or more cables and the cables are removed from the wind turbine.

公开(公告)号：US10690525B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-23

申请号：US15861054

申请日：2018-01-03

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Yang Zhao ,  Huan Tan ,  Steven Gray ,  Ghulam Baloch ,  Mauricio Castillo-Effen ,  Judith Guzzo ,  Shiraj Sen ,  Douglas Forman

IPC: G01D18/00 ,  B64C39/02 ,  G01C23/00 ,  G01C19/5776 ,  G01S17/06 ,  G06T7/77 ,  G06K9/62 ,  G06T7/73 ,  G01C21/20 ,  G01S17/89 ,  G05D1/00 ,  H04N5/232 ,  G01S17/86

Abstract: System and methods may evaluate and/or improve target aiming accuracy for a sensor of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (“UAV”). According to some embodiments, a position and orientation measuring unit may measure a position and orientation associated with the sensor. A pose estimation platform may execute a first order calculation using the measured position and orientation as the actual position and orientation to create a first order model. A geometry evaluation platform may receive planned sensor position and orientation from a targeting goal data store and calculate a standard deviation for a target aiming error utilizing: (i) location and geometry information associated with the industrial asset, (ii) a known relationship between the sensor and a center-of-gravity of the UAV, (iii) the first order model as a transfer function, and (iv) an assumption that the position and orientation of the sensor have Gaussian-distributed noises with zero mean and a pre-determined standard deviation.

公开(公告)号：US10521960B2

公开(公告)日：2019-12-31

申请号：US15585502

申请日：2017-05-03

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Steven Gray ,  Shiraj Sen ,  Ghulam Ali Baloch ,  Mauricio Castillo-Effen ,  Charles Theurer

IPC: G06T15/00 ,  G06T19/00

Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for generating an autonomous 3D inspection plan for an unmanned robot. In an example, the method may include receiving a selection of a plurality of regions of interest with respect to a virtual asset displayed in virtual space, detecting a 3D position of the regions of interest within a coordinate frame of the virtual space, auto-generating a travel path about a physical asset corresponding to the virtual asset by generating a virtual 3D travel path with respect to the virtual asset based on the detected 3D positions of the selected regions of interest within the coordinate frame, aligning the virtual 3D travel path in the virtual space with a physical travel path in a physical space, and outputting a robotic inspection plan comprising the auto-generated physical travel path for the unmanned robot.

公开(公告)号：US20190202059A1

公开(公告)日：2019-07-04

申请号：US15860367

申请日：2018-01-02

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Romano Patrick ,  John Hoare ,  Justin Foehner ,  Steven Gray ,  Shiraj Sen ,  Huan Tan

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  G05D1/00

CPC classification number: B25J9/1679 ,  G05D1/0044 ,  G06F3/011 ,  Y10S901/44

Abstract: In accordance with certain implementations of the present approach, a reduced, element-by-element, data set is transmitted between a robot having a sensor suite and a control system remote from the robot that is configured to display a representation of the environment local to the robot. Such a scheme may be useful in allowing a human operator remote from the robot to perform an inspection using the robot while the robot is on-site with an asset and the operator is off-site. In accordance with the present approach, an accurate representation of the environment in which the robot is situated is provided for the operator to interact with.