Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with imaging and laser sensors have shown their benefits in structural health inspection due to their aerial mobility, low cost, and efficiency. However, UAV applications in practice are limited by their level of automation, and man-piloted operation dominates to date. With vehicle automation on the horizon, autonomous structural inspection systems via robotic vehicles have become a possibility. Nonetheless, significant challenges exist for testing and validating in a physical environment. This paper proposes a virtual reality framework for developing autonomous UAV-based structural health inspection systems. The framework, built atop a gaming engine, implements algorithmic virtual sensing and control of a UAV that flies virtually in a complex built environment. In this paper, we test this framework with a virtual UAV with an open-loop control approach for structural health inspection, including waypoint-based control and simultaneous localization and mapping. We further discuss its full potential as an aerial robotics learning and validation platform for developing advanced data-enabled structural-space exploration, optimal control, and damage assessment.


    Zugriff

    Zugriff prüfen

    Verfügbarkeit in meiner Bibliothek prüfen

    Bestellung bei Subito €


    Exportieren, teilen und zitieren



    Titel :

    A Virtual Reality Environment for Developing and Testing Autonomous UAV-Based Structural Inspection


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering


    Beteiligte:
    Rizzo, Piervincenzo (Herausgeber:in) / Milazzo, Alberto (Herausgeber:in) / Peng, Xin (Autor:in) / Su, Gaofeng (Autor:in) / Chen, ZhiQiang (Autor:in) / Sengupta, Raja (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring ; 2022 ; Palermo, Italy July 04, 2022 - July 07, 2022



    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2022-06-16


    Format / Umfang :

    9 pages





    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




    Virtual testing of autonomous environment control system

    KONRARDY BLAKE / CHRISTENSEN SCOTT T / HAYWARD GREGORY et al. | Europäisches Patentamt | 2024

    Freier Zugriff

    VIRTUAL TESTING OF AUTONOMOUS ENVIRONMENT CONTROL SYSTEM

    KONRARDY BLAKE / CHRISTENSEN SCOTT T / HAYWARD GREGORY et al. | Europäisches Patentamt | 2024

    Freier Zugriff

    VIRTUAL REALITY AUTONOMOUS DRIVING TAKEOVER

    MUENSTER NATALIE / SARDAL RAVIN / GURGHIAN ALEXANDRU et al. | Europäisches Patentamt | 2018

    Freier Zugriff

    VIRTUAL REALITY AUTONOMOUS DRIVING TAKEOVER

    MUENSTER NATALIE / SARDAL RAVIN RATNAKANT / GURGHIAN ALEXANDRU MIHAI et al. | Europäisches Patentamt | 2019

    Freier Zugriff

    Autonomous vehicle virtual reality navigation system

    KUSANO KRISTOFER D / LI YI / HADA HIDEKI et al. | Europäisches Patentamt | 2021

    Freier Zugriff