Automating inspection and documentation of remote building construction using a robotic camera

Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE-CASE 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 172-177

  Song, Dezhen ^a   Hu, Qiang ^a   Qin, Ni ^a   Goldberg, Ken ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automation; Construction; Networked robots; Pan tilt zoom camera; Panoramic display

Indexed keywords

NETWORKED ROBOTS; PAN-TILT-ZOOM CAMERAS; PANORAMIC DISPLAY; VISUAL DOCUMENTATION;

AUTOMATION; EXPERT SYSTEMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CAMERAS;

EID: 33745952016     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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