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by roshanj 2837 days ago
Awesome work Vincent! Glad to see more automation using drones in pilot-less commercial scenarios.

If a customer had a structure without a preexisting 3d model how would you create the flight plan to operate close enough for your defect detector to work? Do you have issues with moving structures/obstacles (e.g. a wind turbine rotor offset from its orientation in the model)?

Full Disclosure: I work on the SDK Platform for Skydio R1 (a fully autonomous drone doing real-time visual SLAM and motion planning). If you're interested in chatting more I'm at roshan [at] skydio.com

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Many customers don’t have precise 3D models of their infrastructure. We deal with that, and other real-world constraints such as wind turbine stopping position, wind turbine blades bending under their own weight, power line slacking low when temperature is high and others in the navigation algorithms.

We have been looking at Skydio for some time, your product is amazing! We'll get in touch