MUMBAI, India, Feb. 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202631015294 A) filed by National Institute Of Technology, Patna, Bihar, on Feb. 11, for 'unmanned aerial vehicle with concurrent processing for structural defect detection.'
Inventor(s) include Chandan, Swet; Choubey, Vikas; and Upadhyay, Vikas.
The application for the patent was published on Feb. 27, under issue no. 09/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure provides an unmanned aerial vehicle (100) for structural defect detection and a method (300) for concurrent flight control and image processing during aerial inspection operations. The unmanned aerial vehicle (100) includes a frame (102), a flight controller (108) connected to an inertial measurement unit (106) with a six-axis motion sensor (106-2), two or more electronic speed controllers (110), two or more brushless direct current motors (112), an image processor (120) with a processor (120-2) and a graphics processor (120-4), a camera (116), and a non-transitory memory (122) storing image processing instructions. Unlike conventional unmanned aerial vehicles that employ unified processing architectures creating computational bottlenecks, this dual-processing approach enables concurrent execution of flight stabilization and defect detection operations without mutual interference, thereby maintaining stable flight characteristics while identifying cracks, corrosion, and slippage during structural inspection missions."
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