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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Towards an Optimal Footprint Based Area Coverage Strategy for a False-Ceiling Inspection Robot.

Thejus Pathmakumar, Vinu Sivanantham, Saurav Ghante Anantha Padmanabha, Mohan Rajesh Elara, Thein Than Tun

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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 4 papers.

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5 authors.

Thejus PathmakumarEngineering Product Development Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore 487372, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0002-4010-570X
Vinu SivananthamEngineering Product Development Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore 487372, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0003-2519-8327
Saurav Ghante Anantha PadmanabhaEngineering Product Development Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore 487372, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0002-5931-2223
Mohan Rajesh ElaraEngineering Product Development Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore 487372, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0001-6504-1530
Thein Than TunOceania Robotics Private Limited, 3 Soon Lee Street, # 01-03 Pioneer Junction, Singapore 627606, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0002-2131-811X

Funding

Agency for Science, Technology and Research 1922200108National Robotics Programme 192 22 00058National Robotics Programme 1922500051
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

False-ceiling inspection is a critical factor in pest-control management within a built infrastructure. Conventionally, the false-ceiling inspection is done manually, which is time-consuming and unsafe. A lightweight robot is considered a good solution for automated false-ceiling inspection. However, due to the constraints imposed by less load carrying capacity and brittleness of false ceilings, the inspection robots cannot rely upon heavy batteries, sensors, and computation payloads for enhancing task performance. Hence, the strategy for inspection has to ensure efficiency and best performance. This work presents an optimal functional footprint approach for the robot to maximize the efficiency of an inspection task. With a conventional footprint approach in path planning, complete coverage inspection may become inefficient. In this work, the camera installation parameters are considered as the footprint defining parameters for the false ceiling inspection. An evolutionary algorithm-based multi-objective optimization framework is utilized to derive the optimal robot footprint by minimizing the area missed and path-length taken for the inspection task. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is analyzed using numerical simulations. The results are validated on an in-house developed false-ceiling inspection robot-Raptor-by experiment trials on a false-ceiling test-bed.

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RoboticsAlgorithmsfalse-ceiling inspectionfunctional footprintmulti-objective optimizationpath-planningpest-control robot

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PMID34372408
PMCPMC8347183

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