“Workers safety improvement and significant reduction of maintenance costs by monitoring and inspecting steel plants with a new type of autonomous flying drones”

Hardware

• Improved construction of drones: using a cage to ensures health and safety of workers in case of accidents
• Autonomous charging station, robust enough for steel industry environment
• Integrated system for data acquisition from drone sensors

Software

• Algorithms for autonomous but nevertheless robust flight in complex areas
• Strategy for a coordinated activation and scheduling for a fleet of drones
• Suitable human machine interface for drones based on smartphones

Management

• Training system for drone control/management for operators
• List of social impacts of drone applications at the plants and its workers’ day-to-day employment
• List of all legal and company internal constraints for autonomous flying drones