AI Engine for Automated Blade Damage Detection

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Sulzer Schmid, a Swiss company pioneering UAV technology for rotor blade inspections, and NNAISENSE, a world leading artificial intelligence specialist, have partnered to develop an artificial intelligence engine to automatically detect rotor blade damages on wind turbine.

This leapfrog technology is expected to bring the twin benefits of improving the productivity and consistency of blade inspection processes. With this new development effort, the two partners are aiming to build the industry’s most powerful Artificial Intelligence engine able to recognize damages based on inspection image material. The initial version will be able to flag all areas of concern on any given damaged blade. Ensuing upgrades will add other capabilities such as the ability to... ... More: Official Press Release Sulzer Schmid

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Sulzer Schmid, UAV technology, NNAISENSE, artificial intelligence, AI, rotor blade, damage, detection, inspection, maintenance