Electrical infrastructure inspection: first flight tests for the AMPLIF-AI project

The following field tests were carried out in recent days in the Province of Bolzano as part of the AMPLIF-AI project (Adaptive Mission Planning for LIve inFrAstructures Inspection).
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In collaboration with Fraunhofer Italia and the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, the project aims to create a hardware/software platform based on unmanned systems and artificial intelligence algorithms, capable of enabling inspection teams to assess in real time the condition of infrastructure in various application scenarios within the Alpine context.

In this specific case, MAVTech drones carried out flight operations in the immediate vicinity of high-voltage pylons with different configurations and varying electrical capacity (from 3 to 6 lines).

Equipped with a LiDAR sensor and an RGB camera mounted on a steerable gimbal, the MAVtech UAV Q4X flight platform reconstructed the three-dimensional structure of the infrastructure with very high precision, also demonstrating excellent position-holding performance while hovering, despite wind gusts of up to 5 m/s.

The test was planned in compliance with safety requirements and current regulations and took place in two separate locations in the municipality of Gargazzone.

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