Annually, millions of dollars are spent to carry out defect detection in key infrastructure
including roads, bridges, and buildings. The aftermath of natural disasters like floods and …

Tactile sensing plays a pivotal role in achieving precise physical manipulation tasks and
extracting vital physical features. This comprehensive review paper presents an in-depth …

Dealing safely with nuclear waste is an imperative for the nuclear industry. Increasingly,
robots are being developed to carry out complex tasks such as perceiving, gras**, cutting …

This work presents a method for tactile classification of materials for virtual reality (VR)
based robot teleoperation. In our system, a human-operator uses a remotely controlled robot …

Robotic exploration under uncertain environments is challenging when optical information is
not available. In this article, we propose an autonomous solution of exploring an unknown …

This article presents an integrated concept of an aerial robot used for predictive
maintenance in the construction sector. The latter can be remotely controlled, allowing the …

Crack detection is of great significance for monitoring the integrity and well-being of the
infrastructure such as bridges and underground pipelines, which are harsh environments for …

This paper demonstrates how tactile and proximity sensing can be used to perform
automatic mechanical fractures detection (surface cracks). For this purpose, a custom …

We present and validate a method to detect surface cracks with visual and tactile sensing.
The proposed algorithm localises cracks in remote environments through videos/photos …

This thesis presents research on VR-based robot teleoperation with a focus on remote
environment visualisation in virtual reality, the effects of remote environment reconstruction …