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Shieh-Kung Huang, Jin-Quan Chen, Yuan-Tao Weng and Jae-Do Kang
Continuous and autonomous system identification is an alternative to regular inspection during operations, which is essential for structural integrity management (SIM) as well as structural health monitoring (SHM). In this regard, online (or real-time) s...
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Ujwal Sharma, Uma Shankar Medasetti, Taher Deemyad, Mustafa Mashal and Vaibhav Yadav
This review paper addresses the escalating operation and maintenance costs of nuclear power plants, primarily attributed to rising labor costs and intensified competition from renewable energy sources. The paper proposes a paradigm shift towards a techno...
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Van Minh Nguyen, Emma Sandidge, Trupti Mahendrakar and Ryan T. White
The accelerating deployment of spacecraft in orbit has generated interest in on-orbit servicing (OOS), inspection of spacecraft, and active debris removal (ADR). Such missions require precise rendezvous and proximity operations in the vicinity of non-coo...
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Valery Bobkov, Antonina Shupikova and Alexander Inzartsev
The inspection of condition of underwater pipelines (UPs) based on autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) requires high accuracy of positioning while the AUV is moving along to the object being examined. Currently, acoustic, magnetometric, and visual mean...
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Matej Fabijanic, Nadir Kapetanovic and Nikola Mi?kovic
The process of fish cage inspections, which is a necessary maintenance task at any fish farm, be it small-scale or industrial, is a task that has the potential to be fully automated. Replacing trained divers who perform regular inspections with autonomou...
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Ana Rita Gaspar and Aníbal Matos
Some structures in the harbour environment need to be inspected regularly. However, these scenarios present a major challenge for the accurate estimation of a vehicle?s position and subsequent recognition of similar images. In these scenarios, visibility...
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Maricruz Fun Sang Cepeda, Marcos de Souza Freitas Machado, Fabrício Hudson Sousa Barbosa, Douglas Santana Souza Moreira, Maria José Legaz Almansa, Marcelo Igor Lourenço de Souza and Jean-David Caprace
Operators of offshore production units (OPUs) employ risk-based assessment (RBA) techniques in order to minimise inspection expenses while maintaining risks at an acceptable level. However, when human divers and workers are involved in inspections conduc...
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Moon Hwan Kim, Teasuk Yoo, Seok Joon Park and Kyungwon Oh
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have emerged as pivotal tools for intricate underwater missions, spanning seafloor exploration to meticulous inspection of subsea infrastructures such as pipelines and cables. Although terrestrial obstacle avoidance ...
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Amrita Das, Eberechi Ichi and Sattar Dorafshan
Ancillary structures are essential for highways? safe operationality but are mainly prone to environmental corrosion. The traditional way of inspecting ancillary structures is manned inspection, which is laborious, time-consuming, and unsafe for inspecto...
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Alexandra Nunes and Aníbal Matos
Nowadays, semantic segmentation is used increasingly often in exploration by underwater robots. For example, it is used in autonomous navigation so that the robot can recognise the elements of its environment during the mission to avoid collisions. Other...
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