Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 08, 2016 - June 11, 2016
Maintenance of infrastructures is a major problem. In order to streamline it, automation of inspections is researched. For complete automation, the trajectory planning method of inspection machines is necessary. This paper presents a trajectory planning method for automatic visual inspection system using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Under an assumption that a 3D model of the target infrastructure and property of a sensor for inspection are given, measuring positions are computed. The suitable flight path covering all measuring positions is planned considering sensing quality and behavior of UAVs. The validity of the proposed method is executed by a computer simulation assuming visual inspections of bridges.
