Active Inspection and Reverse Engineering

We propose a new design for inspection and reverse engineering environments In particular we investigate the use of discrete event dynamic systems DEDS to guide and control the active exploration and sensing of mechanical parts for industrial inspection and reverse engineering We introduce dynamic recursive nite state machines DRFSM as a new DEDS tool for utilizing the recursive nature of the mechanical parts under consideration The proposed framework uses DRFSM DEDS for constructing an observer for exploration and inspection purposes We construct a sensing CAD interface for the automatic reconstruction of parts from visual data We also implement a graphical interface for designing DRFSM DEDS controllers This work was supported in part by DARPA grant N J NSF grant CDA and a University of Utah Research Committee grant All opinions ndings conclusions or recommendations expressed in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily re ect the views of the sponsoring agencies