The remarkable advancement in UAVs has firmly established itself as a pivotal enabler across the commercial landscape and is poised to revolutionise the energy sector. UAVs have proven to be instrumental in streamlining a wide range of operations that would otherwise be prohibitively expensive, labour-intensive and typically constitute a safety risk.
Dr-SUIT offers a suite of technical advantages that redefine the landscape of offshore wind farm inspection. Through our innovations and extensive trials, we at AIRBORNE ROBOTICS have demonstrated the power of satcom-enabled drone swarms equipped with multi-sensors.
These drones operate efficiently in swarm formation offshore (revolutionary first)
* drastically reducing inspection time to just one day
* overcoming access and environmental challenges
* mitigating operational costs and battery life limitations.
Our AI-driven, real-time routing & scheduling model ensures efficient operation of vessels and corresponding drone swarms, and the integration of 5G / satellite communications enhances autonomous operations, facilitating fast data streaming from high-resolution imaging and BVLOS navigation.
Moreover, our swarm-aware battery health management system minimises downtime, while the hybrid communication system empowers coordinated swarm operations.
Dr-SUIT not only revolutionises scalability and precision but also mitigates human risk in aerial operations, ushering in a new era of efficiency and autonomy in wind turbine inspection.
There are three short videos that didn’t play correctly during the webinar. They are as follows:
- Remote survey system demo – YouTube
- Offshore Wind Farm Inspection Simulation – YouTube
- AIR8 Medium Lifter Offshore Drone Swarm Test – YouTube
Speakers:
Alex Fraess-Ehrfeld is the CEO and Founder of AIR6 SYSTEMS | AIRBORNE ROBOTICS, a leading European UAV manufacturer.
He studied Business Administration in Vienna/Austria and has more than 25 years of experience in General Management and Investment Banking (Goldman Sachs, Deloitte & Touche). Since 2015, Alex has been working with commercial drones in development & production as well as their integration in vertical industries and applications. He is a licensed drone pilot and was, for several years, an examiner for drone licenses in Germany. He has been driving the company’s focus on end-to-end drone autonomy in the energy sector (wind, solar, oil & gas), in agriculture & forestry and logistics. He speaks English, German and French.
Victor Becerra is currently a Professor of Power Systems Engineering at the School of Energy and Electronic Engineering, University of Portsmouth, UK, and part of the DrSUIT development team. He received his PhD in Control Engineering in 1994 from City, University of London. From 1989 to 1991, he worked in power systems analysis and control systems design at C.V.G. Edelca, Caracas, Venezuela. From 1994 to 1999, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Control Engineering Research Centre at City, University of London. Between 2000 and 2015, he was an academic at the School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, UK, where he became a Professor of Automatic Control in 2012. His current research interests include various issues related to power systems, automatic control, plant condition monitoring, solar energy systems and energy storage. He has published four books and over 180 refereed publications. He is a Fellow of the IET, a Chartered Engineer, and a Senior Member of the IEEE. During his career, he has received external research funding from the EPSRC, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the European Space Agency, the Technology Strategy Board, Innovate UK, the EU, and various UK companies.
