TY - GEN
T1 - Autonomous robotic system for high-efficiency non-destructive bridge deck inspection and evaluation
AU - La, Hung M.
AU - Lim, Ronny S.
AU - Basily, Basily
AU - Gucunski, Nenad
AU - Yi, Jingang
AU - Maher, Ali
AU - Romero, Francisco A.
AU - Parvardeh, Hooman
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Bridges are one of the critical civil infrastructure for safety of traveling public. The conditions of bridges deteriorate with time as a result of material aging, excessive loading, and inadequate maintenance, etc. In this paper, the development of an autonomous robotic system is presented for highly-efficient bridge deck inspection and evaluation. An autonomous mobile robot is used as a platform to carry various non-destructive evaluation (NDE) sensing systems for simultaneous and fast data collection. Besides the NDE sensors, the robot is also equipped with various onboard navigation sensors. A sensing integration scheme is presented for high-accuracy robot localization and navigation. The effectiveness of the autonomous robotic NDE system is demonstrated through extensive experiments and field deployments.
AB - Bridges are one of the critical civil infrastructure for safety of traveling public. The conditions of bridges deteriorate with time as a result of material aging, excessive loading, and inadequate maintenance, etc. In this paper, the development of an autonomous robotic system is presented for highly-efficient bridge deck inspection and evaluation. An autonomous mobile robot is used as a platform to carry various non-destructive evaluation (NDE) sensing systems for simultaneous and fast data collection. Besides the NDE sensors, the robot is also equipped with various onboard navigation sensors. A sensing integration scheme is presented for high-accuracy robot localization and navigation. The effectiveness of the autonomous robotic NDE system is demonstrated through extensive experiments and field deployments.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84891508400
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U2 - 10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653886
DO - 10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653886
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84891508400
SN - 9781479915156
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering
SP - 1053
EP - 1058
BT - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2013
T2 - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2013
Y2 - 17 August 2013 through 20 August 2013
ER -