To ensure the safety of ship navigation, a regular hull inspection is essential, which can
identify affected structures and guide the appropriate maintenance. Traditional hull …

Vessels are widely used for transporting goods around the world. All cargo vessels are
affected by two main defective situations, namely cracks and corrosion. To prevent major …

Vessel maintenance requires periodic visual inspection of the hull in order to detect typical
defective situations of steel structures such as, among others, coating breakdown and …

Failures in high value, safety-critical, inaccessible, and productivity-critical systems is an
area of significant research interest. Despite advances in predictive and continuous …

The maintenance of ship hulls involves a series of routine tasks during dry-docking that
renews its life-time and operating efficiency. One such task is hull inspection, which is …

This work addresses the problem of semi-automatic inspection and navigation in confined
environments. A system that overcomes many challenges at the state of the art is presented …

This paper describes a camera position control with aerial manipulator for visual test of
bridge inspection. Our developed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has three‐degree‐of …

In this letter, the design optimization and localization with sparse sensing array of range-
based sensors are presented. This optimization focuses on an optimized sparse sensing …

In this paper, we describe a semi-automatic viewpoint moving system that employs a drone
to provide visual assistance to the operator of a teleoperated robot. The objective of this …

Vessel maintenance entails periodic visual inspections of internal and external parts of the
hull in order to detect the typical defective situations affecting metallic structures. Nowadays …