Robotized intelligent manufacturing is a growing trend in the manufacturing of large and
complex components in aviation, aerospace, marine engineering and other industries. With …

To ensure the safety of a concrete structure, periodic and accurate inspection for damage is
necessary. However, there is a high risk of inaccurate diagnosis of the structure condition …

The concept of mobile robotics has had great growth since the 60-70 decade, being created
the Shakey robot as one of the first, followed by the Newt robot and the Hilare robot. In …

Human‐made concrete structures require cutting‐edge inspection tools to ensure the quality
of the construction to meet the applicable building codes and to maintain the sustainability of …

Abstract The High Mobility Inchworm Climbing Robot (HMICRobot), capable of traversing
diaphragms between sections and performing internal inspections of steel box girder …

In climbing robots, weak grasping, large size, and a lack of self-perception capability are
critical problems that urgently need to be solved. Inspired by the excellent grasping ability of …

For the surface defects inspection task, operators need to check the defect in local detail
images by specifying the location, which only the global 3D model reconstruction can't …

Concrete infrastructure often develops a variety of internal flaws that cannot be detected
through visual inspection alone, and must be regularly inspected with other methods to …

Low-drift localization and reliable yaw orientation estimation remain challenging for visual-
inertial odometry (VIO) without loop closure, especially for climbing robots in weak-featured …

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been increasingly embraced in building
inspection and maintenance to realize automated crack inspection. However, CNNs are still …