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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Autonomous inspection"”.
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Asymptotically optimal path planning and surface reconstruction for inspection
Motivated by inspection applications for marine structures, this thesis develops algorithms to enable their autonomous inspection. Two essential parts of the inspection problem are (1) path planning and (2) surface reconstruction. On the first problem, we develop a novel analysis of asymptotic …
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Ultra-wideband radar for robust inspection drone in underground coal mines
… pose a high safety risk for human workers. An autonomous inspection drone would enable a coal mine operation to reduce this risk by minimizing the time spent by workers inside the mine. This inspection drone must be highly robust to the harsh environment of an underground coal mine, with high …
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Integral Quadratic Constraints and Safety Certificates for Uncertainty Characterization and Control Safety-Aware Filtering of Proximity Operations Between Satellites
… to filter out unsafe control output during an autonomous inspection of a Client. This framework mitigates the collision risk based on integral quadratic constraints (IQCs) worst bounds recommendation, miss distance, Mahalanobis distance, and Probability of Collision (Pc) metrics. Innovative …
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Design and Integration of Machine Learning-Based Vision System for Automated Power Line Inspection Using a Mobile Damping Robot
… over time. This thesis presents a vision-based, autonomous inspection framework using a modified Mobile Damping Robot, with two distinct levels of health assessment. The first method focuses on a simpler binary classification, where image filtering techniques—such as Sobel, Scharr, and Gray-scale …
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Brachiating power line inspection robot: controller design and implementation
… challenging terrain, provide an opportunity for autonomous inspection robots. The Brachiating Power Line Inspection Robot (BPLIR) with wheels [73] is a transmission line inspection robot. The BPLIR is the focus of this research and this dissertation tackles the problem of state estimation, …
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Autonomous vision-based inspection of RC railway bridges for rapid post-earthquake response and recovery
This research proposes a framework for autonomous vision-based inspection of reinforced concrete (RC) railway bridges to realize rapid post-earthquake response and recovery, which are crucial for minimizing the disruptions to people’s lives and business. Currently, after an earthquake, coarse …