Follow-up meeting for the IA-DRON project at the CETEM facilities

On 26 September, CETEM and CTM held a follow-up meeting on the IA-DRON project IA-DRON – Artificial Intelligence applied to the control and improvement of working conditions in industrial environments using drones.

This innovative, highly technological project aims to develop advanced monitoring systems using drones, integrating smart sensors and artificial vision algorithms in order to detect potential occupational hazards in industrial environments at an early stage. At this meeting, the progress made to date in activities 3 and 4 of the project was shared.

In particular, within activity 3: Design and technological development of the base station, progress and the current status of the tasks led by CETEM have been shared:

• T3.1: Design and development of the AI-based risk detection VA system, focused on analysing thermal images received from the drone and processing them to detect and locate risk situations.
• T3.2: Design and development of plan and route management software, the aim of which is to enable those responsible for the installation to define the plan of the factory’s working area, validate it to ensure that it is possible to navigate between points of interest, and create the actual dynamic navigation routes for the drone.
• And, within activity 4, ‘Design and technological development of drones,’ the tasks led by the CTM, in particular:
• T4.2: Design and development of the sensor coupling system in the sentinel drone, taking into account the drone’s capabilities, the conditions to be monitored, physical integration with the drone’s sensors, electronic connection to the processing system, and development of the software that will collect, process, and transmit the information captured in real time.
• T4.3: Design and development of thermal image transmission, variables and commands that allow the control system to wirelessly receive video frames from the drone’s thermal camera, with its communication protocol for sending and receiving additional information (status, position, load, etc.) and commands that can be sent to the server.

At the follow-up meeting, the current progress and next steps in the ongoing tasks were presented.

The IA-DRON project is financed with ERDF funds under the ERDF Operational Programme 2021-2027, managed by the Murcia Region Development Institute, within action 3 ‘Promotion of business investment in R&D’, and with file no. 2024.08.CT01.000034.