Wind turbine
Hello,
I will have the job to check the big "wind turbine" blades in my area for inspection. I will fly a Matrice 300 with H20T. I could fly a M3T as well.
I'm going to fly each blade from both sides. The blades will always be in same position, like Blade 1 on 12 o clock.
By any chance - does anybody see a chance to automate the flight, program once and then start the flight with each wind turbine? To fly manual would require such an extra amount of time and focusing ...
Kind regards,
Tim
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Depends on how many wind turbines you have to check.
Automation is interesting if you have a lot.
Take a look at the On the Fly missions like the facade. After creating one while on site you just go into the Web app and save it. Now you have the plan which can be copied as many times as you want. All you’ll need to do is move each one to the location at each windmill and save it. This may work depending on your situation.
https://support.dronelink.com/hc/en-us/articles/7082121565971-Advanced-Facades-Vertical-Mapping-Circle-Spiral-Polygon-Boundary-Faces
For automation would it be possible to set up something using the facade component?
Facade seems to be appropriated.
In case focus on blades is expected, not sure it fully answers the need.
stéphane GARNIER I'll have a lot to check, like...50, for now.
I'm not too sure if facade will work, because, I have to get around 4 meter close to the blade. How can I assure that the drone is in the correct angle to the wind turbine, that I dont have 0,5 m distance on the left blade and like 7 meter distance on the right blade...
Perfect would be something like a 4 spot check to tell the drone reference points. Each end of the blade and the middle of the wind turbine so the drone will know where it is and where the end points of the wind turbines are located.
Somebody did an automation for wind turbines before?
The only way I can think of if it needs to be that accurate is On the fly for each one. If someone else knows a better way then maybe they can help. Being that close and needing it that accurate on each one may be difficult with a pre planned mission. Im sure there a a few others which have performed wind turbine inspections with DL but they may not have needed them to be that close and accurate. I’d also suggest searching on the internet for forums which discuss these type of automated missions where other commercial pilots perform inspection on windmills. I’m sure they have them and they may have some ideas. Just a thought.
Tim Zieger, the idea of the 4 points is the one I had. But how to replicate & automate the same for the 49 remaining wind turbines ?
Use case is interesting to think about.
That reminds me some inspections I did in the past :
https://youtu.be/YyCG_faTHMs?si=pRIUoDIfJSyYvSkM
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