A UAV-based explore-then-exploit system for autonomous indoor facility inspection and scene reconstruction

C Gao, X Wang, R Wang, Z Zhao, Y Zhai, X Chen… - Automation in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Traditional indoor facility inspections on pipelines and boilers are conducted manually and
can be logistically challenging, labor-intensive, costly, and dangerous for the inspectors …

Millipcd: Beyond traditional vision indoor point cloud generation via handheld millimeter-wave devices

P Cai, S Sur - Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
3D Point Cloud Data (PCD) has been used in many research and commercial applications
widely, such as autonomous driving, robotics, and VR/AR. But existing PCD generation …

Vehicle Localization in a Completed City-Scale 3D Scene Using Aerial Images and an On-Board Stereo Camera

H Zhang, C Xie, H Toriya, H Shishido, I Kitahara - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) forms the foundation of vehicle localization
in autonomous driving. Utilizing high-precision 3D scene maps as prior information in …

Integrating AI and DTs: challenges and opportunities in railway maintenance application and beyond

R Dirnfeld, L De Donato, A Somma, MS Azari… - …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In the last years, there has been a growing interest in the emerging concept of digital twin
(DT) as it represents a promising paradigm to continuously monitor cyber–physical systems …

Mission Design for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using Hybrid Probabilistic Logic Programs

S Kohaut, B Flade, DS Dhami, J Eggert… - 2023 IEEE 26th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is a growing field that demands a deep understanding of legal,
spatial and temporal concepts in navigation. Hence, any implementation of AAM is forced to …

A hierarchical multi-UAV cooperative framework for infrastructure inspection and reconstruction

C Gao, X Wang, X Chen, BM Chen - Control Theory and Technology, 2024 - Springer
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are emerging as a powerful tool for inspections and
repair works in large-scale and unstructured 3D infrastructures, but current approaches take …

Multi robot coordination of unmanned aerial vehicles in defence

D Raghuraman, S Surya, A Dhanushkrishnan… - AIP Conference …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), also known as a drone, is an airborne system that is
remotely controlled by an operator or an internal computer which plays an integral part in the …