Cooperation between an unmanned aerial vehicle and an unmanned ground vehicle in highly accurate localization of gamma radiation hotspots

T Lazna, P Gabrlik, T Jilek… - International Journal of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This article discusses the highly autonomous robotic search and localization of radiation
sources in outdoor environments. The cooperation between a human operator, an …

Free-moving quantitative gamma-ray imaging

D Hellfeld, MS Bandstra, JR Vavrek, DL Gunter… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
The ability to map and estimate the activity of radiological source distributions in unknown
three-dimensional environments has applications in the prevention and response to …

Gamma-ray point-source localization and sparse image reconstruction using Poisson likelihood

D Hellfeld, THY Joshi, MS Bandstra… - … on Nuclear Science, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gamma-ray imaging attempts to reconstruct the spatial and intensity distribution of gamma-
emitting radionuclides from a set of measurements. Generally, this problem is solved by …

3-D radiation mapping in real-time with the localization and mapping platform LAMP from unmanned aerial systems and man-portable configurations

R Pavlovsky, A Haefner, T Joshi, V Negut… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Real-time, meter-resolution gamma-ray mapping is relevant in the detection and mapping of
radiological materials, and for applications ranging from nuclear decommissioning, waste …

The nuclear legacy today of fukushima

K Vetter - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) following the Great
East Japan Earthquake and the subsequent tsunami in March 2011 changed people's …

Reconstructing the position and intensity of multiple gamma-ray point sources with a sparse parametric algorithm

JR Vavrek, D Hellfeld, MS Bandstra… - … on Nuclear Science, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an experimental demonstration of additive point source localization (APSL), a
sparse parametric imaging algorithm that reconstructs the 3-D positions and activities of …

Optimizing the localization of gamma radiation point sources using a UGV

T Lazna - 2018 ELEKTRO, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper is concerned with the autonomous robotic measurement of gamma radiation and
the localization of its sources. The objective is to find techniques that allow faster localization …

Gamma-ray imaging with spatially continuous intensity statistics

M Greiff, E Rofors, A Robertsson… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Novel methods for the inference of radiation intensity functions defined over known surfaces
are proposed, intended for use in surveying applications with mobile spectrometers …

Multi-robotic area exploration for environmental protection

T Lazna, T Jilek, P Gabrlik, L Zalud - … of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems …, 2017 - Springer
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Localizing hot spots in Poisson radiation data matrices: nonnegative tensor factorization and phase congruency

MG Thomason, BS Jordan - Journal of Big Data, 2021 - Springer
Detecting and delineating hot spots in data from radiation sensors is required in applications
ranging from monitoring large geospatial areas to imaging small objects in close proximity …