公开(公告)号：US12221231B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-11

申请号：US17649898

申请日：2022-02-03

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Walter J. Jarecki ,  James J. Troy ,  Gregory James Sweers ,  Charles T. Coccia

IPC: B64F5/60 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64U101/30 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G06T7/00

Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for inspecting an aircraft. A computer system receives captured data associated with a flight path flown by an unmanned aircraft system to acquire the captured data for the aircraft. The computer system compares the captured data with reference data for the aircraft to form a comparison. The computer system determines whether the captured data is within a set of tolerances for valid captured data using a result of the comparison. Prior to detecting anomalies for the aircraft using the captured data, the computer system determines a set of corrective actions in response to the captured data being outside of the set of tolerances for the valid captured data in which the set of corrective actions is performed.

公开(公告)号：US11975869B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-07

申请号：US17661623

申请日：2022-05-02

Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY

Inventor： Gregory James Sweers ,  James J. Troy ,  Gary E. Georgeson

IPC: B64F5/60 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64D47/02 ,  G01M11/02 ,  G06T7/00 ,  G06V10/60 ,  G08G5/00 ,  B64U101/30

CPC classification number: B64F5/60 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64D47/02 ,  G01M11/0228 ,  G06T7/0004 ,  G06V10/60 ,  G08G5/003 ,  G08G5/0069 ,  B64U2101/30 ,  G06T2207/30252

Abstract: A method includes obtaining, at an unmanned aerial vehicle, a flight plan for the unmanned aerial vehicle. The flight plan is based on an aircraft type of an aircraft to be inspected. The method also includes coordinating, with a lighting control device onboard the aircraft, activation of a particular exterior light of the aircraft based on the flight plan such that the particular exterior light activates or deactivates when a particular sensor of the one or more sensors is located (i.e., positioned and oriented) to perform a sensing operation on the particular exterior light. The method further includes performing the sensing operation on the particular exterior light using the particular sensor. The method also includes determining a functionality metric associated with the particular exterior light based on the sensing operation.

公开(公告)号：US20200292430A1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-17

申请号：US16351066

申请日：2019-03-12

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Gary E. Georgeson ,  Gregory James Sweers

IPC: G01N3/34

Abstract: A method of performing an automated non-destructive examination of a composite structure includes identifying surface damage on the composite structure, coupling an automated tap tester device to a surface of the composite structure at a location of the surface damage, and performing, with the automated tap tester device, a plurality of tapping impacts on the surface within a testing area that encapsulates the surface damage. The method also includes receiving a plurality of acoustic signals associated with the plurality of tapping impacts, modeling sub-surface damage associated with the surface damage based on an analysis of the plurality of acoustic signals.

公开(公告)号：US20180114302A1

公开(公告)日：2018-04-26

申请号：US15331864

申请日：2016-10-23

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Gregory James Sweers

IPC: G06T7/00 ,  H04N13/02 ,  H04N5/225 ,  G06K9/62

CPC classification number: G06T7/001 ,  B64C2201/12 ,  B64F5/60 ,  G06K9/6202 ,  G06K9/6267 ,  H04N5/2252 ,  H04N13/204

Abstract: A device including housing and a sensing module in the housing and configured to detect a lightning-caused inconsistency on an aircraft. The device also includes a data capture module in the housing and configured to capture images of the lightning-caused inconsistency. The device also includes an analysis module in the housing and configured to characterize characteristics of the lightning-caused inconsistency using the images and to compare the characteristics to a preexisting data set.