NOVEL SYSTEMS AND METHODS THAT FACILITATE UNDERSIDE INSPECTION OF CRAFTS

摘要

A craft inspection process is described. The craft inspection process includes: (i) locating, using an overhead robot, a candidate craft in space within one or more robotic envelopes and identifying craft offset; (ii) locating, using the overhead robot and the craft offset, a component and/or sub-component of the candidate craft within one of one or more of the robotic envelopes and identifying a component offset and/or the sub-component offset; and (iii) inspecting the component and/or the sub-component using an underside robot and the component offset and/or the sub-component offset.

主权项

1. A craft inspection process comprising:
locating, using an overhead robot, a candidate craft in space within one or more robotic envelopes and identifying craft offset; locating, using said overhead robot and said craft offset, a component and/or sub-component of said candidate craft within one of said one or more robotic envelopes and identifying a component offset and/or sub-component offset; conveying from said overhead robot to one or more computer systems at least one information chosen from a group including a point of origin of said component and/or said sub-component, one or more boundary coordinates of said component and/or said sub-component, an overhead scan path, signal to commence underside inspection, component offset and sub-component offset; and processing, using said one or more computer systems, said at least one information received from said overhead robot to develop underside information used during underside inspection.