Enhanced discrete particle swarm optimization path planning for UAV vision-based surface inspection

MD Phung, CH Quach, TH Dinh, Q Ha - Automation in Construction, 2017 - Elsevier
In built infrastructure monitoring, an efficient path planning algorithm is essential for robotic
inspection of large surfaces using computer vision. In this work, we first formulate the …

Advanced perception, navigation and planning for autonomous in-water ship hull inspection

FS Hover, RM Eustice, A Kim, B Englot… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Inspection of ship hulls and marine structures using autonomous underwater vehicles has
emerged as a unique and challenging application of robotics. The problem poses rich …

Active planning for underwater inspection and the benefit of adaptivity

GA Hollinger, B Englot, FS Hover… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Bayesian optimisation for informative continuous path planning

R Marchant, F Ramos - 2014 IEEE International Conference on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Environmental monitoring with mobile robots requires solving the informative path planning
problem. A key challenge is how to compute a continuous path over space and time that will …

Stochastic poisson surface reconstruction

S Sellán, A Jacobson - ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2022 - dl.acm.org
We introduce a statistical extension of the classic Poisson Surface Reconstruction algorithm
for recovering shapes from 3D point clouds. Instead of outputting an implicit function, we …

[HTML][HTML] The pinax-model for accurate and efficient refraction correction of underwater cameras in flat-pane housings

T Łuczyński, M Pfingsthorn, A Birk - Ocean Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
The calibration and refraction correction process for underwater cameras with flat-pane
interfaces is presented that is very easy and convenient to use in real world applications …

Model predictive control for underwater robots in ocean waves

DC Fernández, GA Hollinger - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater robots beneath ocean waves can benefit from feedforward control to reduce
position error. This letter proposes a method using model predictive control (MPC) to predict …

Energy‐efficient path planning for solar‐powered mobile robots

PA Plonski, P Tokekar, V Isler - Journal of Field Robotics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We explore the problem of energy‐efficient, time‐constrained path planning of a solar‐
powered robot embedded in a terrestrial environment. Because of the effects of changing …

Multiobjective coverage path planning: Enabling automated inspection of complex, real-world structures

KO Ellefsen, HA Lepikson, JC Albiez - Applied Soft Computing, 2017 - Elsevier
An important open problem in robotic planning is the autonomous generation of 3D
inspection paths–that is, planning the best path to move a robot along in order to inspect a …

The next best underwater view

M Sheinin, YY Schechner - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2016 - openaccess.thecvf.com
To image in high resolution large and occlusion-prone scenes, a camera must move above
and around. Degradation of visibility due to geometric occlusions and distances is …