AVIATOR

Barely visible impact damage (BVID) is a key limiting factor in the wider use of laminated composites, which is difficult to detect and can drastically reduce their strength. The current state of the art lacks a reliable and cheap inspection solution for BVID. The objective of this project is to obtain a step-change improvement in reliability, speed, and cost of visual inspection of BVID in aerospace composite structures by developing a novel autonomous Omnidirectional Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Omni-UAV) with a two-level vision-tactile screening system linked with an Artificial Intelligent (AI)-based platform. 

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