IP Library Granted Patent US 11,640,659
Granted Patent B2
US 11,640,659 · App. 17/149,377 · Granted May 2, 2023

System and method for assessing the health of an asset

Inventors: S V Raj Kumar Bolisetti (Bangalore, IN); Rajani M. Poornima (Bangalore, IN); Ashok Kumaraswamy (Bangalore, IN); Vishnu Tatiparthi (Bangalore, IN); Lakshmy Narayanan (Bangalore, IN); Vamshi Krishna Reddy Kommareddy (Bangalore, IN); Aditya Bhakta (Bangalore, IN); Raja Vardhan Movva (Bangalore, IN); Debasish Mishra (Bangalore, IN)
Assignee: General Electric Company
G06T7/001G06T2207/10016G06T2207/20081G06T2207/20084G06T2207/30164
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Patent No.
US 11,640,659
App. No.
17/149,377
Granted
May 2, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

There are provided methods and systems for assessing the health of an asset. For example, a system is provided. The system may include a processor and a memory including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations consistent with identifying a defect in a component of an asset. The operations may include fetching from an inspection system, a plurality of images acquired from an inspection of the component of the asset by the inspection system. The operations may include identifying, based on an image processing technique codified and included as part of the instructions, a subset of images from the plurality of images. The subset of images is representative of the defect in the component of the asset, and the image processing technique is selected from the group consisting of an auto-distress ranking technique, a structural similarity technique, a mean-subtracted filtering technique, and a Hessian norm computation technique.

Claims (29)

1. A system for identifying a defect in a component of an asset, the system comprising:

a processor;

a memory including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

fetching from an inspection system, a plurality of images acquired from an inspection of the component of the asset by the inspection system;

identifying, based on an image processing technique codified and included as part of the instructions, a subset of images from the plurality of images, wherein the image processing technique includes utilizing a Hamming norm to obtain summarized information of each of the plurality of images, and the subset of images is identified by using the summarized information from the Hamming norm,

wherein the subset of images is representative of the defect in the component of the asset, and

wherein the image processing technique is selected from the group consisting of an auto-distress ranking technique, a structural similarity technique, a mean-subtracted filtering technique, and a Hessian norm computation technique.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further include fetching a CAD model of the component and rendering a specified image from the subset of images onto the CAD model.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the operations further include fetching the CAD model from a database communicatively coupled to the system.

4. The system of claim 2 , wherein the operations further include identifying one or more regions of the specified image representative of the defect.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the asset is an engine.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the inspection system includes a borescope inspection system.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further include extracting the plurality of images from a video.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of images include several views of the component.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further include providing a metric associated with the defect based on a specified image form the subset of images.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the metric is independent of an absolute pixel value of a specified image from the subset of images.

11. The system of claim 9 , wherein the metric is based on summarized information from a specified image from the subset of images.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further include providing a dataset including metrics generated from the subset of images based on the image processing technique.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the operations further include training a neural network or a deep learning system based on the dataset.

14. The system of claim 13 , wherein the operations further include providing another a second dataset based on a result of the training, the other second dataset being representative of a predictive performance of the component.

15. A method for identifying a defect in a component of an asset, the method comprising:

fetching, by a defect-identification system, from an inspection system, a plurality of images acquired from an inspection of the component of the asset by the inspection system;

identifying, by the defect-identification system, based on an image processing technique, a subset of images from the plurality of images, wherein the image processing technique includes utilizing a Hamming norm to obtain summarized information of each of the plurality of images, and the subset of images is identified by using the summarized information from the Hamming norm,

wherein the subset of images is representative of the defect in the component of the asset, and

wherein the image processing technique is selected from the group consisting of an auto-distress ranking technique, a structural similarity technique, a mean-subtracted filtering technique, and a Hessian norm computation technique.

16. The method of claim 15 , further including fetching a CAD model of the component and rendering a specified image from the subset of images onto the CAD model.

17. The method of claim 16 , further including fetching the CAD model from a database communicatively coupled to the system.

18. The method of claim 15 , further including extracting the plurality of images from a video.

19. The method of claim 15 , further including providing a metric associated with the defect based on a specified image of the subset of images.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 14, 2021
From: BOLISETTI, S V RAJ KUMAR; POORNIMA, RAJANI M.; KUMARASWAMY, ASHOK; TATIPARTHI, VISHNU; NARAYANAN, LAKSHMY; KOMMAREDDY, VAMSHI KRISHNA REDDY; BHAKTA, ADITYA; MOVVA, RAJA VARDHAN; MISHRA, DEBASISH
To: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
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Priority Claims (1)
IN 202011001847 · Jan 15, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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