Aerial service robots for visual inspection of thermal power plant boiler systems

2012 2nd International Conference on Applied Robotics for the Power Industry, CARPI 2012

Volumn 2012-January, Issue , 2012, Pages 70-75

  Burri, Michael ^a   Nikolic, Janosch ^a   Hürzeler, Christoph ^a   Caprari, Gilles ^b   Siegwart, Roland ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aerial service robots; Inspection; Model predictive control; Visual inertial motion estimation

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CONTROLLERS; GRADIENT METHODS; INSPECTION; MOBILE ROBOTS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; MOTION ESTIMATION; THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS;

ARBITRARY TRAJECTORIES; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; EGO-MOTION ESTIMATION; INDUSTRIAL INSPECTIONS; INERTIAL MEASUREMENTS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROLLERS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; SERVICE ROBOTS;

VISUAL SERVOING;

EID: 84977910242     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CARPI.2012.6473374     Document Type: Conference Paper

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