‘Dhalion’, known as an intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle, provides inspection engineers with a new, cost-effective inspection tool which minimises inspection time and health and safety risks. The company has received funding from Innovate UK’s ‘open’ programme for innovative businesses with high-growth potential.

At the press of a button, a wind turbine inspection is carried out in minutes. Throughout the flight Dhalion is equipped to take evasive manoeuvres if necessary.

Dhalion is an autonomous inspection platform for wind turbines.

At the press of a button, Dhalion allows existing O&M teams to complete wind turbine inspections in minutes rather hours with increased inspection quality.

The path is optimised for optimum coverage, reliability in weather and consistent data acquisition. Throughout the flight, Dhalion minds its surrounding and deals intelligently with obstacles and unexpected situations.

The inspection data are then automatically distilled to useful information about position, size, and severity of defects on the tower and blades. It can identify lightning strikes, cracks, erosion and delamination as well as highlight anything out of the ordinary. The consistent data capture allows for long term analytics from data mining massive amounts of information to inform O&M decision making.