Autonomous Exploration and General Visual Inspection of Ship Ballast Water Tanks using Aerial Robots

M Dharmadhikari, P De Petris… - 2023 21st …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a solution for the autonomous exploration and inspection of Ballast
Water Tanks (BWTs) of marine vessels using aerial robots. Ballast tank compartments are …

Research on Point Cloud Structure Detection of Manhole Cover Based on Structured Light Camera

G Lin, H Zhang, S Xie, J Luo, Z Li, Y Wang - Electronics, 2024 - mdpi.com
This study introduced an innovative approach for detecting structural anomalies in road
manhole covers using structured light cameras. Efforts have been dedicated to enhancing …

Maritime Vessel Tank Inspection using Aerial Robots: Experience from the field and dataset release

M Dharmadhikari, N Khedekar, P De Petris… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper presents field results and lessons learned from the deployment of aerial robots
inside ship ballast tanks. Vessel tanks including ballast tanks and cargo holds present dark …

A Framework to Allow Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Make Good Collisions

M Molnar - 2024 - search.proquest.com
The field of unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV, navigation has been moving towards collision
inclusive path planning, yet work has not been done to consider what a UAV is colliding …