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Contemporary industrial Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) methods require sensing capabilities that operate in occluded, hazardous, or access restricted environments. Yet, the current visual inspection based on optical cameras offers limited…

Large-scale infrastructures are prone to deterioration due to age, environmental influences, and heavy usage. Ensuring their safety through regular inspections and maintenance is crucial to prevent incidents that can significantly affect…

Image data has a great potential of helping post-earthquake visual inspections of civil engineering structures due to the ease of data acquisition and the advantages in capturing visual information. A variety of techniques have been applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Yasutaka Narazaki , Vedhus Hoskere , Tu A. Hoang , Billie F. Spencer

Learning-based methodologies increasingly find applications in safety-critical domains like autonomous driving and medical robotics. Due to the rare nature of dangerous events, real-world testing is prohibitively expensive and unscalable.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Aman Sinha , Matthew O'Kelly , Russ Tedrake , John Duchi

The rising number of bridge collapses worldwide has compelled governments to introduce predictive maintenance strategies to extend structural lifespan. In this context, vibration-based Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) techniques utilizing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Elisa Tomassini , Enrique García-Macías , Filippo Ubertini

In today's chemical plants, human field operators perform frequent integrity checks to guarantee high safety standards, and thus are possibly the first to encounter dangerous operating conditions. To alleviate their task, we present a…

This investigation attempts to create an automated framework for fault detection and organization for usage in contemporary radiography, as per NDE 4.0. The review's goals are to address the lack of information that is sufficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Aditya Sharma

Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) equipped with high-quality cameras have revolutionized the field of inspections by providing efficient and cost-effective means of conducting surveys. The use of autonomous inspection is becoming more…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Shijie Gao , Lauren Bramblett , Nicola Bezzo

In this paper we present an overview of the methods and systems that give rise to a flying robotic system capable of autonomous inspection, surveying, comprehensive multi-modal mapping and inventory tracking of construction sites with high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Huan Nguyen , Frank Mascarich , Tung Dang , Kostas Alexis

State estimation is an essential component of autonomous systems, usually relying on sensor fusion that integrates data from cameras, LiDARs and IMUs. Recently, radars have shown the potential to improve the accuracy and robustness of state…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Vlaho-Josip Štironja , Luka Petrović , Juraj Peršić , Ivan Marković , Ivan Petrović

The periodic inspection of vessels is a fundamental task to ensure their integrity and avoid maritime accidents. Currently, these inspections represent a high cost for the ship owner, in addition to the danger that this kind of hostile…

An electrical impedance spectroscopy-based nondestructive testing (NDT) method is proposed to image both cracks and reinforcing bars in concrete structures. The method utilizes the frequency-dependent behavior of thin insulating cracks:…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Habib Ammari , Jin Keun Seo , Tingting Zhang , Liangdong Zhou

Current evaluation methods for autonomous driving prediction models rely heavily on simplistic metrics such as Average Displacement Error (ADE) and Final Displacement Error (FDE). While these metrics offer basic performance assessments,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Feifei Liu , Haozhe Wang , Zejun Wei , Qirong Lu , Yiyang Wen , Xiaoyu Tang , Jingyan Jiang , Zhijian He

Structural health monitoring (SHM) tasks like damage detection are crucial for decision-making regarding maintenance and deterioration. For example, crack detection in SHM is crucial for bridge maintenance as crack progression can lead to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Anoop Mishra , Gopinath Gangisetti , Deepak Khazanchi

Critical infrastructure, such as transport networks and bridges, are systematically targeted during wars and suffer damage during extensive natural disasters because it is vital for enabling connectivity and transportation of people and…

Autonomous identification and evaluation of safe landing zones are of paramount importance for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of aerial robots in the event of system failures, low battery, or the successful completion of specific…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Mattia Secchiero , Nishanth Bobbili , Yang Zhou , Giuseppe Loianno

Water level monitoring is critical for flood management, water resource allocation, and ecological assessment, yet traditional methods remain costly and limited in coverage. This work explores radar-based sensing as a low-cost alternative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Anna Zavei-Boroda , J. Toby Minear , Kyle Harlow , Dusty Woods , Christoffer Heckman

Continuous structural health monitoring (SHM) and integrated nondestructive evaluation (NDE) are important for ensuring the safe operation of high-risk engineering structures. Recently, piezoresistive nanocomposite materials have received…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Lang Zhao , Tyler Tallman , Guang Lin

Composite materials/structures are advancing in product efficiency, cost-effectiveness and the development of superior specific properties. There are increasing demands in their applications to load-carrying structures in aerospace, wind…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Bing Wang , Shuncong Zhong , Tung-Lik Lee , Kevin S Fancey , Jiawei Mi

The contribution introduces the principles, methods, and applications of non-destructive testing in the context of particle accelerators and related technologies is presented. Both surface inspection methods (visual testing, penetrant…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Gonzalo Arnau Izquierdo