The Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) has developed a drone for detecting defects in building structures. This was reported by the university's press service.
The drone operates on the basis of domestic software. The new development is now in demand on the Russian market, and it will replace foreign analogues.
Previously, internal monitoring of industrial enterprises and construction sites was carried out visually by a person using various lifting equipment. Then small-sized devices appeared, which made it possible to reduce the labor intensity of inspection. Currently, there are difficulties with the purchase and use of such devices, they have become unavailable on the Russian market, and the cost of those that can be imported is tens of millions of rubles per unit.
The new drone is not inferior to foreign versions of devices with similar purposes. The drone will allow you to find defects in building structures in closed facilities where GPS and other navigation systems do not work.
The UAV is designed with the possibility of installing several types of payloads: a high-resolution video camera for simple visual inspection of the object, a thermal imager for detecting defects in the infrared range, and a lidar that allows scanning and restoring the geometry of the object.
Earlier www1.ru reported that in 2024 Russia contracted drones for more than 5 billion rubles.
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