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Swerve Drive Autonomous Robot for Tiles Thermographic Inspection

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Synergetic Cooperation Between Robots and Humans (CLAWAR 2023)

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Quality inspection of buildings is a task that can be tedious and prone to human errors, so the use of autonomous mobile robots is very attractive. In this work, a swerve drive mobile robot is proposed for tile hollowness inspection using an active thermographic approach. It integrates a hot air blower as heating source and an infrared thermal camera to observe the hollow region contour, which is the result of the characteristics of the thermal diffusion process in different media. In addition, image processing techniques were used to segment the hollow region contour. As a result, an automatic, fast and effective inspection strategy is proposed.

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Acknowledgement

The authors thank the funding from the Secretaría Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación de Panama (SENACYT) under the project “Plataforma Robótica Móvil Multifuncional” with Grant No. INNOVATEC21-060, Contract No. 129-2022.

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  1. LEADS Research Group, Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, Panama city, Panama

    Humberto Rodríguez

  2. Fab Lab-UTP, Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, Panama city, Panama

    Humberto Rodríguez, Víctor Pérez & Octavio Echeverría

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  1. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil

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  2. School of Engineering, London South Bank University, London, UK

    Mohammad Osman Tokhi

  3. School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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  4. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil

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Rodríguez, H., Pérez, V., Echeverría, O. (2024). Swerve Drive Autonomous Robot for Tiles Thermographic Inspection. In: Youssef, E.S.E., Tokhi, M.O., Silva, M.F., Rincon, L.M. (eds) Synergetic Cooperation Between Robots and Humans. CLAWAR 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 810. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47269-5_8

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