Aircraft visual inspection is a procedure that aims at identifying problems with the vehicle
structure. The visual inspection of aircraft is part of the activities of aircraft Maintenance …

The increase in available data from sensors embedded in industrial equipment has led to a
recent rise in the use of industrial predictive maintenance. In the aircraft industry, predictive …

Background—In the field of aviation, maintenance and inspections of engines are vitally
important in ensuring the safe functionality of fault-free aircrafts. There is value in exploring …

Background—Aircraft inspection is crucial for safe flight operations and is predominantly
performed by human operators, who are unreliable, inconsistent, subjective, and prone to …

Monitoring tool conditions and sub-assemblies before final integration is essential to
reducing processing failures and improving production quality for manufacturing setups …

Machine learning (ML) has emerged as a useful predictive tool based on mathematical and
statistical relationships for various engineering problems. The pairing of structural health …

Major aviation organizations have highlighted the need to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) to
transform operations and improve efficiency and safety. However, the aviation industry …

Visual inspection is currently the most common way for surface defect detection in the
damaged composite structure, which is considered unreliable for barely visible impact …

The new progressive smart technologies announced in the fourth industrial revolution in
aviation—Aviation 4.0—represent new possibilities and big challenges in aircraft …

At present, inspection systems process visual data captured by cameras, with deep learning
approaches applied to detect defects. Defect detection results usually have an accuracy …