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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Deep Learning Based Pavement Inspection Using Self-Reconfigurable Robot.

Balakrishnan Ramalingam, Abdullah Aamir Hayat, Mohan Rajesh Elara, Braulio Félix Gómez, Lim Yi, Thejus Pathmakumar, Madan Mohan Rayguru, Selvasundari Subramanian

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8 authors.

Balakrishnan RamalingamEngineering Product Development Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore 487372, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0002-3243-9814
Abdullah Aamir HayatEngineering Product Development Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore 487372, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0001-6141-4600
Mohan Rajesh ElaraEngineering Product Development Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore 487372, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0001-6504-1530
Braulio Félix GómezEngineering Product Development Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore 487372, Singapore.
Lim YiEngineering Product Development Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore 487372, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0003-2997-6667
Thejus PathmakumarEngineering Product Development Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore 487372, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0002-4010-570X
Madan Mohan RayguruEngineering Product Development Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore 487372, Singapore.
Selvasundari SubramanianLayorz Private Limited, Tamil Nadu, Karur 639117, India.

Funding

This research is supported by the National Robotics Programme under its Robotics Enabling Capabilities and Technologies (Funding Agency Project No. 192 25 00051), National Robotics Programme under its Robot Domain Specific (Funding Agency Project No. W192 192 25 00051
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The pavement inspection task, which mainly includes crack and garbage detection, is essential and carried out frequently. The human-based or dedicated system approach for inspection can be easily carried out by integrating with the pavement sweeping machines. This work proposes a deep learning-based pavement inspection framework for self-reconfigurable robot named Panthera. Semantic segmentation framework SegNet was adopted to segment the pavement region from other objects. Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) based object detection is used to detect and localize pavement defects and garbage. Furthermore, Mobile Mapping System (MMS) was adopted for the geotagging of the defects. The proposed system was implemented and tested with the Panthera robot having NVIDIA GPU cards. The experimental results showed that the proposed technique identifies the pavement defects and litters or garbage detection with high accuracy. The experimental results on the crack and garbage detection are presented. It is found that the proposed technique is suitable for deployment in real-time for garbage detection and, eventually, sweeping or cleaning tasks.

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garbage detectionmachine learningpavement cracks detectionpavement sweeping robotself-reconfigurable

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PMID33917223
PMCPMC8067980

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