Copting GmbH Smaragd

How the railway infrastructure can be monitored with the help of drone data and external data services.

Problem
In order to guarantee restrictions in the regular operation of the railway, bridges, overhead lines and routes of the railway infrastructure must be subjected to regular visual inspections. Since this would lead to disabilities during normal operating hours, such work is often carried out on the weekend or in night shifts, which usually also means road closures. This is personnel, time and cost intensive.

Task
The aim of the project is to show that drones can use automatic, precise approaches to send suitable images that can be used for monitoring and diagnosing large-scale infrastructures. For this purpose, research activities are then carried out to improve the automatic image evaluation using Building Information Modeling (BIM). Analysis software should then enable the comparison and evaluation of selected elements from a reference database.