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Aviation & Transportation

Spatial AI for commercial aviation MRO, fleet sustainment, and heavy transportation.

GridRaster brings Spatial AI to commercial aviation MRO, fleet sustainment, and heavy transportation. SPIDER turns aircraft, engines, and vehicles into live spatial data that technicians, inspectors, and robotic systems all work from: shortening turnaround times, capturing a traceable record of every task, and putting trainees inside an asset before it reaches the floor.

What SPIDER brings to aviation and transportation

Figure: SPIDER platform architecture

Built on a modular, open architecture for long-lifecycle fleet programs

3D model generation from commercial off-the-shelf devices, producing fully textured, production-ready digital twins of airframes, engines, and subassemblies in minutes
Automatic 3D object segmentation and bounding-box extraction
Reconstruction at 1:1 scale without polygon reduction

Markerless localization of assets and parts in real time, with no fixtures or fiducials
Real-time 6DoF tracking of inspection tools during use
Orientation, alignment, and anchoring of digital twins to the physical asset

Training & Simulation

Train on the Engine Before It Reaches the Hangar

New engines and aircraft arrive before the people who will maintain them have ever touched one. SPIDER puts a high-fidelity 1:1 digital twin in the room instead: technicians walk around it, search components, pull up technical data in place, section and explode the assembly, and practice the procedure at their own pace. Shared sessions put multiple trainees and instructors inside the same virtual engine, wherever they are, so a new engine model can be trained on before a physical one reaches the shop floor.

Active Task Assistance

Right Place, Right the First Time

Assistance is dynamic, not a static work instruction. SPIDER detects the aircraft, aligns its digital twin to the physical surface, and shows the target in place: X-ray plate positions on a rudder, fastener locations on a fuselage panel, or masking boundaries before paint. Errors are flagged as they happen and each step is confirmed before anything irreversible is committed, so rework is caught in-process rather than after the fact.

Inspection & Maintenance

Every Finding, Anchored to the Tail Number

Inspection readings and defect locations are usually captured by hand or stored apart from the aircraft, slowing maintenance cycles and limiting traceability. SPIDER tracks inspection tools in real time and anchors every reading to its location on the physical part and its digital twin, on one unified data layer: an eddy-current tool’s full path, a tactile tool’s surface captures, and X-ray results all mapped onto the same twin. Every inspection becomes a complete, traceable digital work record for the asset.