Power line inspection plays a significant role in the normal operation of power systems. Although there is much research on inspection, question how to balance working hours each worker and minimize total hours, which related social fairness maximization benefits, still challenging. Experience-based assignment methods tend lead extremely uneven among working/inspection teams. Therefore, it grea...

Motivated by the success of the translation-based approach for conformant planning, introduced by Palacios and Geffner, we present two variants of a new compilation scheme from conformant probabilistic planning problems (CPP) to variants of classical planning. In CPP, we are given a set of actions – which we assume to be deterministic in this paper, a distribution over initial states, a goal co...

Planning is traditionally associated with the search for sequences of actions spread over time. In this paper we present a component placement problem (CPP), which is concerned with sequences of actions spread in the space of wide-area networks. We argue that, despite the lack of a time component, the CPP is a planning problem. We discuss complexity of the CPP and similarities between the CPP a...

We discuss the problem of inspecting an underwater structure, such as a submerged ship hull, with an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). Unlike a large body of prior work, we focus on planning the views of the AUV to improve the quality of the inspection, rather than maximizing the accuracy of a given data stream. We formulate the inspection planning problem as an extension to Bayesian active ...

Automated optical inspection systems are frequently utilized to sort out defective objects. However, those objects might actually be reworked or disposed. The combination of defect detection and specific processing in a single operation helps to reduce reworking time and waste. Defect detection on 3D objects is approached by combining the techniques of surface detection and geometry estimation....

In this paper we use the value chain concept, which links the level of value of the final product to the fitness of working products, for planning inspection activities. Following this value chain an inspection tackles the risk of a lower level of value due to defects in a working product from two sides: Inspection lowers the frequency of loss with removal of defects and the size of potential l...