This letter concerns optimal power transmission line inspection formulated as a proposed generalization of the traveling salesman problem for multi-route one-depot scenario. The is an vehicle with limited travel budget. Therefore, solution can be composed multiple runs to provide full coverage given lines. Besides, indicates how many vehicles perform in single run. solved by Integer Linear Prog...

Inconsistency in manual inspection is real because humans get tired after some time. Recent trends show that automatic inspection is more appealing for mass production inspections. In such as a case, a robot manipulator seems the best candidate to run a dynamic visual inspection. The purpose of this work is to estimate the optimum workspace where a robot manipulator would perform a visual inspe...

In Japan, inspection of irrigation water canals has been mostly conducted manually. However, the huge demand for more regular inspections as infrastructure ages, coupled with the limited time window available for inspection, has rendered manual inspection increasingly insufficient. With shortened inspection time and reduced labor cost, automated inspection using a combination of unmanned aerial...

This paper presents a motion optimization system for an industrial quality inspection process where a vision device coupled with a manipulator robot arm is able to perform quality and completeness inspection on a complex solid part. In order to be deployed in an industrial production plant, the proposed system has been engineered and integrated as a module of an offline simulator, called WorkCe...

Introduction In the last years, the field of fully-automated plan generation has significantly advanced. However, in a real-world application it is likely that the plans synthesized by planning systems are not directly executable without an inspection of the user, who might require that some changes be performed in order to make the plan more suitable, robust or more preferable, or to update th...

Risk based inspection analysis (RBIA) on offshore topsides static mechanical pressure systems aid the optimum performance of in-service inspection. Risk based inservice inspection analysis (RBISIA) essentially considers failures by loss of containment of the pressure envelope and supports decision making in inspection planning. This is based on the potential failure risk of a system, a sub-syst...

In this paper a design and implementation of a remote control system of a manipulator for weld inspection of nuclear reactor vessels are described. Based on the client-server TCP/IP software architecture, the presented control system enables an operator to perform the entire inspection procedure remotely over a network, avoiding exposure to dangerous radiation normally present in nuclear reacto...

This paper describes an architecture for a system for machining and inspecting mechanical piece parts and an implementation of it called the Feature-Based Inspection and Control System (FBICS). In FBICS, the controller of a machining center or coordinate measuring machine uses a standard feature-based description of the shape of the object to be made as a principal input for machining and/or in...