COMPIT 2016

Advances in Automated Ship Structure Inspection

Thomas Koch, Atlantec Enterprise Solutions GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
Sankaranarayanan Natarajan, DFKI GmbH, Robotics Innovation Center, Bremen, Germany
Felix Bernhard, DFKI GmbH, Robotics Innovation Center, Bremen, Germany
Alberto Ortiz, University of Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Francisco Bonnin-Pascual, University of Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Emilio Garcia-Fidalgo, University of Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Joan Jose Company Corcoles, University of Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Abstract

Inspection of ship-board structures by humans is a time-consuming, expensive and commonly hazardous activity, creating the need to search for better solutions. Simultaneously the desire for broader and intensified data acquisition grows to provide a better basis for refined condition assessment. As the implementation of automated and increasingly autonomous robotic platforms for everyday use becomes more realistic, we have realised various approaches to robotic ship inspection, which are based on advances in multiple dimensions: light-weight robotic platform development, complex data pre-processing functions and large-scale data analytics. Results of investigations carried out as part of a project for enhanced ship safety are presented.

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