Intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system for aircraft surface inspection

Aircraft surface inspection is critical to the safe flight of aircraft. At present, aircraft surface inspection is still mainly conducted by manual visual inspection. In order to improve the efficiency of inspection efficiency, in this paper, we designed an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) intelligent system to collect aircraft surface images and used deep learning object detection algorithm to independently and efficiently solved aircraft surface inspection include:(1) Used unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to collect the whole surface image of the aircraft wholly and independently according to the pre-planning information. (2) A high-performance algorithm for real-time detection and a high-precision algorithm for accurate detection were designed to realize intelligent inspection of aircraft surface damage based on deep learning object detection. Our experiments showed that this system could quickly and accurately inspect the entire aircraft surface with meeting the safety requirements.