Guillaume Maitre

2021 — 2026 · PhD researcher

Autonomous UAV Tower Audit

PhD thesis — autonomous transmission-tower inspection with UAVs

−32%

Inspection time

+42%

Defects detected

4

Publications

PythonAirSimUnreal EngineDeep RLPhotogrammetry

Thesis: 'On the use of autonomous UAV for Transmission Tower audit.' Combines deep-learning-based visual control with photogrammetric reconstruction and defect detection. Published at CIGRE 2025 (32% inspection-time reduction, 42% more defects detected vs manual), Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2024) and WIVACE (2021).

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