Robots, Drones, UAVs and UGVs for Operation and Maintenance / Edition 1

by Diego Galar, Uday Kumar, Dammika Seneviratne

Overview

Industrial assets (such as railway lines, roads, pipelines) are usually huge, span long distances, and can be divided into clusters or segments that provide different levels of functionality subject to different loads, degradations and environmental conditions, and their efficient management is necessary. The aim of the book is to give comprehensive understanding about the use of autonomous vehicles (context of robotics) for the utilization of inspection and maintenance activities in industrial asset management in different accessibility and hazard levels. The usability of deploying inspection vehicles in an autonomous manner is explained with the emphasis on integrating the total process.

Key Features

• Aims for solutions for maintenance and inspection problems provided by robotics, drones, unmanned air vehicles and unmanned ground vehicles
• Discusses integration of autonomous vehicles for inspection and maintenance of industrial assets
• Covers the industrial approach to inspection needs and presents what is needed from the infrastructure end
• Presents the requirements for robot designers to design an autonomous inspection and maintenance system
• Includes practical case studies from industries

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138322110
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	05/20/2020
Series:	ICT in Asset Management
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Diego Galar, Uday Kumar, Dammika Seneviratne

Table of Contents

Preface. Authors. 1. Introduction. 2. Development of Autonomous Vehicles. 3. Distant Inspection Operations for Industrial Assets. 4. Sensors for Autonomous Vehicles in Infrastructure Inspection Applications. 5. Data Acquisition and Intelligent Diagnosis. 6. Three-dimensional Visualization. 7. Communications. 8. Autonomous Vehicles for Infrastructure Inspection Applications. 9. Failure Detection Application in Autonomous Vehicles. 10. Autonomous Inspection and Maintenance with Artificial Intelligent Infiltration. 11. Big Data and Analytics for AV Inspection and Maintenance. Index.