Bridge Inspection Drone Autonomy

The brief

Current flight planning fails under roughly 20% of the bridge structures in the inspection portfolio due to GPS denial. You will implement and field-test a vision-based localisation fallback, validated against real inspection flights rather than a simulator.

What you'll need

• Coursework in planning and control for robotics
• Comfortable working at height-adjacent infrastructure sites under supervision

What you'll walk away with

• A fallback localisation system validated on real inspection flights
• A published field trial report co-authored with your supervisor