Author:
Sasaki Tohru,Shioya Ryo,Sakai Toshitaka,Kinoshita Shunki,Nojiri Takahito,Terabayashi Kenji,Jindai Mitsuru
Abstract
Infrastructure such as roads, tunnels and bridges needs periodical inspection. The conventional structure inspection method, in which a human inspector uses a crack gauge, may lead to problems such as measurement errors and lengthy inspection times. Mobile robots and image processing have been used in the infrastructure inspection field. An image sensor or any sensor is used for measuring the state of the infrastructures. It is necessary that the mobile robot knows its own position and posture during automatic inspection. Generally, the Global Positioning System (GPS) has been used to sense the position of the mobile robot. However, GPS is not usable in places with the ceilings such as under bridges and in tunnels. Therefore, we developed a system to sense the position and posture of mobile robots. This system uses laser projection markers and cameras, and it has a very simple configuration. The camera photographs a target structure and projection laser markers, and the position and posture of the camera and mobile robot were calculated by an image application. The system makes infrastructure inspection more effective and decreases the time needed for inspection. In this paper, we examined the number of necessary laser markers, and we verified our method by experiment.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Computer Networks and Communications,Hardware and Architecture,Signal Processing,Control and Systems Engineering
Cited by
4 articles.
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