The aim of this work is fast, automated planning of robotic inspections involving complex 3D structures. A model comprised of discrete geometric primitives is provided as input, and a feasible robot inspection path is produced as output. Our algorithm is intended for tasks in which 2.5D algorithms, which divide an inspection into multiple 2D slices, and segmentation-based approaches, which divi...

We create a mapping system and a control system on a telepresence robot to further facilitate indoor social navigation. The implementation is based on a commercial telepresence robot and its custom operating system. A mapping framework based on SLAMmethods is employed to obtain real-time results. Navigation controls are implemented with inspection of the internal interfaces of the telepresence ...

Computer vision is forever expanding into new areas, especially in the eld of inspection. The work presented here shows how computer vision has the potential to improve the exterior inspection of large buildings. A robot is being developed at City University, London that will perform a number of tests and the initial use of computer vision is to locate the robot thus enabling the position of bu...

As the human race continue its exploration farther into the solar system, extraterrestrial habitats can be placed on asteroids, moons, and planets, such as Mars. These habitats would require on continuous monitoring and maintenance in order to remain safe and functional. However, permanent astronaut on-site may not be available for this task. A possible alternative to direct inspection is remot...

665 In order to maintain a comfortable office environment periodical inspection of the air conditioning equipment is very important. It is necessary to measure the air temperature and the volume of the controlled outlet air correctly from the ceiling air diffuser. The periodical inspection of a large number of ceiling air diffusers must be done efficiently and in a short time. Up to now this ha...

In this paper, we discuss an intelligent bridge inspection system by using a Robot and IT technology which enables acquiring images of the bridge condition for managing the safety of its structure. The purpose of this study is composed of two parts: 1) the image acquisition of a bridge structure with the application of a vision-based robot, the name of the robot system is U-BIROS(Ubiquitous Bri...

This paper presents design of a climbing robot for inspection of glass curtain walls. The double-chamber structure enables the robot to climb over grooves on the glasses. In order to reduce the weight, both number and shape of the chambers are specially considered, and the pressure structure is optimized by FEA method. The statics models of different adsorption situations are also analyzed and ...

Robotica / Volume 31 / Issue 04 / July 2013, pp 573 588 DOI: 10.1017/S0263574712000598, Published online: 19 October 2012 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0263574712000598 How to cite this article: Xuefeng Zhou, Yisheng Guan, Li Jiang, Haifei Zhu, Chuanwu Cai, Wenqiang Wu and Hong Zhang (2013). Stability of biped robotic walking with frictional constraints. Robotica...

A general robotic mechanism was presented for in-pipe inspection oflevel pipes with varied diameter or curved pipelines. The robot employed three legs comprised of parallelogram linkages mechanism which enables adapting to various elbow joints in the piping systems. The curvatures in pipeline are the most important constraints in front of the robot through navigation process. To study the adapt...