Robotics Technology for Inspection of Ships

Risultati finali

Documents, reports (11)

Operational procedures for RAS assisted inspections

The deliverable will detail the procedures to be adopted for the employment of the RAS platforms used in the ROBINS project for the selected use cases.

Applicable rules and recommendations for the risk management

The deliverable will detail the relevant applicable rules and will contain the report of the risk assessment.

Performance assessment in representative use cases

The deliverable will contain all the information not confidential (it will show results of surveys in the field and how the stabilization work helped the surveyor, gathering their feedback)

Guidelines for design, implementation and verification of a testing facility for RAS assisted ship inspections

The deliverable will describe guidelines for design, implementation and verification of a testing facility for RAS assisted ship inspections.

Identification of key features and definition of metrics

Key features to be verified for ensuring the fit-for-purpose of RAS platforms and robotic technologies, as well as relevant metrics for demonstrating that the RAS systems fulfil the specified requirements for their intended services will be reported in the deliverable.

Report of the test session in the Testing Facility concerning advanced navigation and human-machine interface

The deliverable will include outcomes of the test session in the Testing Facility concerning advanced navigation and human-machine interface.

Interim report on dissemination activities

This deliverable will report on dissemination activities

Report of demonstration on-board

The deliverable will include outcomes of the demonstration on-board

Dissemination plan, web-site structure and promotion material templates

Report on dissemination plan, web-site structure and promotion material templates

Final report on dissemination and exploitation activities

The output of this deliverable will be a final report on dissemination and exploitation activities

Performance Standards and Cost Benefit Analysis

The deliverable will report the results of Task 9.3.

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

The deliverable will provide the plan for data management following the guidelines of the Open Research Data Pilot.

Pubblicazioni

Conference proceedings (15)

LiPo-LCD: Combining Lines and Points for Appearance-based Loop Closure Detection

Autori: Joan P. COMPANY, Emilio GARCIA-FIDALGO, Alberto ORTIZ
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2020
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4262960

Visual Inspection of Vessels Cargo Holds: Use of a Micro-Aerial Vehicle as a Smart Assistant

Autori: Alberto ORTIZ, Francisco BONNIN-PASCUAL, Emilio GARCIA-FIDALGO, Joan P. COMPANY, Kai YAO
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Metrology for the Sea, 2019, Page(s) 221-226
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4262105

Evaluation of a Skill-based Control Architecture for a Visual Inspection-oriented Aerial Platform

Autori: Emilio Garcia-Fidalgo, Francisco Bonnin-Pascual, Joan P. Company-Corcoles, Alberto Ortiz
Pubblicato in: 2020 25th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), 2020, Page(s) 1503-1510
DOI: 10.1109/etfa46521.2020.9212103

Combination of Planes and Image Edges for a Visual Odometer for Weakly Textured Structured Environments

Autori: Joan P. Company-Corcoles, Alberto Ortiz
Pubblicato in: 2019 24th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), 2019, Page(s) 1563-1566
DOI: 10.1109/etfa.2019.8868237

On the standard fuzzy metric: generalizations and application to model estimation

Autori: Juan Jose MIÑANA, Alberto ORTIZ, Esau ORTIZ, Óscar VALERO
Pubblicato in: Proc. Spanish Congress on Fuzzy Logic and Technologies (ESTYLF), 2021, Page(s) 311-316
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4964782

Centroid Loss for Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation in a Quality-Control Application

Autori: Kai Yao, Alberto Ortiz, Francisco Bonnin-Pascual
Pubblicato in: 2020 25th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), 2020, Page(s) 1239-1242
DOI: 10.1109/etfa46521.2020.9212160

An UWB-based System for Localization inside Merchant Vessels

Autori: Francisco Bonnin-Pascual, Alberto Ortiz
Pubblicato in: 2019 24th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), 2019, Page(s) 1559-1562
DOI: 10.1109/etfa.2019.8869511

Assessment of ship robotic inspections

Autori: Laura POGGI, Tomaso GAGGERO, Marco GAIOTTI, Enrico RAVINA, Cesare Mario RIZZO (UNIGE)
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA 2020, Issue Oct 2020, 2020

Towards Robust Loop Closure Detection in Weakly Textured Environments using Points and Lines

Autori: Joan P. Company-Corcoles, Emilio Garcia-Fidalgo, Alberto Ortiz
Pubblicato in: 2020 25th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), 2020, Page(s) 1313-1316
DOI: 10.1109/etfa46521.2020.9212133

iBoW-LCD: An Appearance-based Loop Closure Detection Approach using Incremental Bags of Binary Words

Autori: Emilio GARCIA-FIDALGO, Alberto ORTIZ
Pubblicato in: presented at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2018

New Steps towards the Integration of Robotic and Autonomous Systems in the Inspection of Vessel Holds

Autori: Alberto ORTIZ, Kai YAO, Francisco BONNIN-PASCUAL, Emilio GARCIA-FIDALGO, Joan P. COMPANY
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the Spanish Robotics Conference, 2018

Towards the Automation of Visual Inspections of Cargo Holds of Large-Tonnage Vessels

Autori: Alberto ORTIZ, Francisco BONNIN-PASCUAL, Emilio GARCIA-FIDALGO, Joan P. COMPANY, Kai YAO
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the Spanish Robotics Conference, 2019, Page(s) 189-196

Robotic inspection of ship structures: how to fill the gap between available technologies and current survey practices?

Autori: Laura POGGI, Tomaso GAGGERO, Marco GAIOTTI, Enrico RAVINA, Cesare Mario RIZZO 
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the IMEKO Conference 19 Int Workshop on Metrology for the Sea, 2019

Superpixel Description and Indexing for Visual Loop Closure Detection

Autori: Rihem El Euch, Emilio Garcia-Fidalgo, Alberto Ortiz, Ferdaous Chaabane, Adel Ghazel
Pubblicato in: 2019 24th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), 2019, Page(s) 1591-1594
DOI: 10.1109/etfa.2019.8869091

A DCNN-based Arbitrarily-Oriented Object Detector for a Quality-Control Application

Autori: Kai Yao, Alberto Ortiz, Francisco Bonnin-Pascual
Pubblicato in: 2019 24th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), 2019, Page(s) 1507-1510
DOI: 10.1109/etfa.2019.8869335

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Robotic inspection of ships: inherent challenges and assessment of their effectiveness

Autori: Laura Poggi, Tomaso Gaggero, Marco Gaiotti, Enrico Ravina, Cesare Mario Rizzo
Pubblicato in: Ships and Offshore Structures, 2020, Page(s) 1-15, ISSN 1744-5302
DOI: 10.1080/17445302.2020.1866378

A Duality Relationship Between Fuzzy Partial Metrics and Fuzzy Quasi-Metrics

Autori: Valentín Gregori, Juan-José Miñana, David Miravet
Pubblicato in: Mathematics, Issue 8/9, 2020, Page(s) 1575, ISSN 2227-7390
DOI: 10.3390/math8091575

Extended Fuzzy Metrics and Fixed Point Theorems

Autori: Valentín Gregori, Juan-José Miñana, David Miravet
Pubblicato in: Mathematics, Issue 7/3, 2019, Page(s) 303, ISSN 2227-7390
DOI: 10.3390/math7030303

Aggregation of Indistinguishability Fuzzy Relations Revisited

Autori: Juan-De-Dios González-Hedström, Juan-José Miñana, Oscar Valero
Pubblicato in: Mathematics, Issue 9/12, 2021, Page(s) 1441, ISSN 2227-7390
DOI: 10.3390/math9121441

On fixed point theory in partially ordered sets and an application to asymptotic complexity of algorithms

Autori: Asier Estevan, Juan-José Miñana, Oscar Valero
Pubblicato in: Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. Serie A. Matemáticas, Issue 113/4, 2019, Page(s) 3233-3252, ISSN 1578-7303
DOI: 10.1007/s13398-019-00691-8

Indistinguishability Operators via Yager t-norms and Their Applications to Swarm Multi-Agent Task Allocation

Autori: Maria-del-Mar Bibiloni-Femenias, José Guerrero, Juan-José Miñana, Oscar Valero
Pubblicato in: Mathematics, Issue 9/2, 2021, Page(s) 190, ISSN 2227-7390
DOI: 10.3390/math9020190

Recent developments in remote inspections of ship structures

Autori: Laura Poggi, Tomaso Gaggero, Marco Gaiotti, Enrico Ravina, Cesare Mario Rizzo (UNIGE)
Pubblicato in: International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Issue Volume 12, 2020, Page(s) 881-891, ISSN 2092-6782

On Completeness in Metric Spaces and Fixed Point Theorems

Autori: Valentín Gregori, Juan-José Miñana, Bernardino Roig, Almanzor Sapena
Pubblicato in: Results in Mathematics, Issue 73/4, 2018, Page(s) article number 142, ISSN 1422-6383
DOI: 10.1007/s00025-018-0896-4

A Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation Approach Based on the Centroid Loss: Application to Quality Control and Inspection

Autori: Kai Yao, Alberto Ortiz, Francisco Bonnin-Pascual
Pubblicato in: IEEE Access, Issue 9, 2021, Page(s) 69010-69026, ISSN 2169-3536
DOI: 10.1109/access.2021.3077847

On the use of robots and vision technologies for the inspection of vessels: A survey on recent advances

Autori: Francisco Bonnin-Pascual, Alberto Ortiz
Pubblicato in: Ocean Engineering, Issue 190, 2019, Page(s) 106420, ISSN 0029-8018
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2019.106420

iBoW-LCD: An Appearance-Based Loop-Closure Detection Approach Using Incremental Bags of Binary Words

Autori: Emilio Garcia-Fidalgo, Alberto Ortiz
Pubblicato in: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Issue 3/4, 2018, Page(s) 3051-3057, ISSN 2377-3766
DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2018.2849609

A novel approach for defect detection on vessel structures using saliency-related features

Autori: Francisco Bonnin-Pascual, Alberto Ortiz
Pubblicato in: Ocean Engineering, Issue 149, 2018, Page(s) 397-408, ISSN 0029-8018
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2017.08.024

A reconfigurable framework to turn a MAV into an effective tool for vessel inspection

Autori: Francisco Bonnin-Pascual, Alberto Ortiz, Emilio Garcia-Fidalgo, Joan P. Company-Corcoles
Pubblicato in: Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Issue 56, 2019, Page(s) 191-211, ISSN 0736-5845
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcim.2018.09.009

UWB-Based Self-Localization Strategies: A Novel ICP-Based Method and a Comparative Assessment for Noisy-Ranges-Prone Environments

Autori: Francisco Bonnin-Pascual, Alberto Ortiz
Pubblicato in: Sensors, Issue 20/19, 2020, Page(s) 5613, ISSN 1424-8220
DOI: 10.3390/s20195613

A study on the relationship between relaxed metrics and indistinguishability operators

Autori: Pilar Fuster-Parra, Javier Martín, Juan-José Miñana, Oscar Valero
Pubblicato in: Soft Computing, Issue 23/16, 2019, Page(s) 6785-6795, ISSN 1432-7643
DOI: 10.1007/s00500-018-03675-9

On Matthews’ Relationship Between Quasi-Metrics and Partial Metrics: An Aggregation Perspective

Autori: Juan-José Miñana, Oscar Valero
Pubblicato in: Results in Mathematics, Issue 75/2, 2020, Page(s) article number 47, ISSN 1422-6383
DOI: 10.1007/s00025-020-1173-x

Other (31)

Robot ispettori per le navi, nasce Testing Facility

Autori: University of Genova
Pubblicato in: Telenord, Issue July 2019, 2019

Dissemination video on the activities of the UIB team related with the ROBINS project (in Catalan)

Autori: UIB communication services
Pubblicato in: UIB Youtube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnXFIHWLWQXGeqISIwHp3jgQU5pG8TIKH), 2021

“Testing Facility” unica al mondo

Autori: University of Genova
Pubblicato in: Vita e Mare, Issue 15/5/2020, 2020

Un laboratorio sui robot a bordo delle navi lanciato dall'Università di Genova

Autori: University of Genova
Pubblicato in: Genova 24, Issue July 2019, 2019

Robins: il progetto dell'Università di Genova per l'ispezione delle navi

Autori: University of Genova
Pubblicato in: La voce di Genova, Issue July 2019, 2019

Ispezioni navali da remoto arrivano droni e crawler

Autori: University of Genova
Pubblicato in: Vita e Mare, Issue January 2020, 2020

Al giro di boa il progetto europeo “Robins” per lo sviluppo della tecnologia robotica

Autori: University of Genova
Pubblicato in: La voce di Genova, Issue January 2020, 2020

I robot si addestrano per l’ispezione delle navi, a Genova il primo campo di prova

Autori: University of Genova
Pubblicato in: Innovation Post, Issue July 2019, 2019

Nasce all’Università di Genova una Testing Facility dedicata ai robot per le ispezioni a bordo delle navi

Autori: University of Genova
Pubblicato in: Meteoweb, Issue July 2019, 2019

Lo sviluppo di droni per visite a bordo delle navi

Autori: Cesare RIZZO
Pubblicato in: Porto&Interporto, Issue June 2019, 2019, Page(s) 59

Turning a MAV into an Effective Tool for Vessel Inspection through a Reconfigurable Framework

Autori: Francisco BONNIN-PASCUAL, Alberto ORTIZ, Emilio GARCIA-FIDALGO, Joan P COMPANY
Pubblicato in: Technical Report A-01-2018, Department of Matehmatics & Computer Science (UIB), Issue 01-2018, 2018

Uso combinado de planos y contornos de objetos en un odometro visual para entornos estructurados debilmente texturados (English title: Combination of planes and edges for a visual odometer for weakly textured structured environments)

Autori: Joan P. COMPANY-CORCOLES, Alberto ORTIZ
Pubblicato in: Technical Report A-02-2018, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Issue A-02-2018, 2018

Revision extensa de métodos de deteccion de obstaculos para entornos genericos mediante tecnicas de vision par computador (English title: A state of the art on vision-based methods for obstacles detection)

Autori: Joan P. COMPANY-CORCOLES, Alberto ORTIZ
Pubblicato in: Technical Report A-01-2019, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Issue 01-2019, 2019

ROBINS Project - Robotics technology for INspection of Ships Framework Case Studies, 2018

Autori: Enrico CARRARA
Pubblicato in: Issue 2018, 2018

ROBINS project: the testing facility

Autori: Enrico CARRARA
Pubblicato in: Issue 9/2018, 2018

ROBINS Project: the drones and their operational scenarios

Autori: Enrico CARRARA
Pubblicato in: Issue 9-2018, 2018

ROBINS Project: the software tools for drone-assisted inspection

Autori: Enrico CARRARA
Pubblicato in: Issue 9/2018, 2018

ROBINS Project: ROBotics technology for INspection of Ships Framework

Autori: Reddy DEVALAPALLI
Pubblicato in: 2018

A few videos about the arrival and assembly of the testing facility modules

Autori: Cesare RIZZO et al.
Pubblicato in: YouTube Channel on the Marine Structures Testing Lab, 2019

ROBINS project (UIB)

Autori: Alberto ORTIZ
Pubblicato in: 2018

Use case on FLYABILITY website

Autori: Adrien BRIOD
Pubblicato in: 2018

ROBINS Project

Autori: Alberto ORTIZ
Pubblicato in: 2018

ROBINS e l’adozione di RAS per visite a bordo delle navi (ROBINS and the adoption of RAS for ship surveys)

Autori: Gianfranco Damilano
Pubblicato in: Tecnologie Trasporti Mare TTM, Issue Gennaio-Febbraio 2019, 2019, Page(s) pp.24-25

Navi, droni-ispettori per abbattere i costi della manutenzione

Autori: University of Genova
Pubblicato in: The Medi Telegraph, Issue January 2020, 2020

Robot ispettori sulle navi, a Genova nasce Testing facility

Autori: University of Genova
Pubblicato in: ANSA, Issue July 2019, 2019

Verifica delle tecnologie robotiche per le ispezioni navali

Autori: University of Genova
Pubblicato in: A&B Ordine degli Ingegneri di Genova, Issue April 2020, 2020, Page(s) 23-24

Navi, droni-ispettori per abbattere i costi della manutenzione

Autori: University of Genova
Pubblicato in: Il Secolo XIX, Issue 28/1/2020, 2020

Robot a bordo delle navi per le ispezioni in stiva

Autori: University of Genova
Pubblicato in: Il Secolo XIX, Issue 10/7/2019, 2019

A DCNN-based Arbitrarily-Oriented Object Detector for Quality Control and Inspection Application

Autori: Yao, Kai; Ortiz, Alberto; Bonnin-Pascual, Francisco
Pubblicato in: Arxiv (submitted to a journal, under review at this moment), 2021

Un ambiente di prova per le ispezioni delle costruzioni navali

Autori: University of Genova
Pubblicato in: Life.Unige, Issue July 2019, 2019

Ispettori robotici sulle navi. L'Università presenta Robins

Autori: University of Genova
Pubblicato in: Il Secolo XIX, Issue 22/1/2020, 2020

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Ispezione robotizzata delle strutture navali

Autori: University of Genova
Pubblicato in: Tecnologie Trasporti Mare, Issue November 2019, 2019, Page(s) 46-47, ISSN 1721-758X

Monographic books (1)

Methods for Appearance-based Loop Closure Detection - Applications to Topological Mapping and Image Mosaicking

Autori: Emilio GARCIA-FIDALGO, Alberto ORTIZ
Pubblicato in: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR) series, Issue vol. 122 (2018), 2018
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75993-7

Book chapters (4)

Progetto ROBINS - Tecnologie robotiche per l'ispezione delle navi

Autori: Enrico CARRARA
Pubblicato in: Porto&Interporto, Issue November 2018, 2018, Page(s) 14

Hypothesis Scoring and Model Refinement Strategies for FM-Based RANSAC

Autori: Alberto Ortiz, Esaú Ortiz, Juan José Miñana, Óscar Valero
Pubblicato in: Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 19th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, CAEPIA 2020/2021, Málaga, Spain, September 22–24, 2021, Proceedings, Issue 12882, 2021, Page(s) 96-105
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-85713-4_10

Navigation for Inspection

Autori: Alberto Ortiz, Javier Antich, Francisco Bonnin-Pascual
Pubblicato in: Encyclopedia of Robotics, 2020, Page(s) 1-16
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-41610-1_87-1

On the Use of Fuzzy Metrics for Robust Model Estimation: A RANSAC-Based Approach

Autori: Alberto Ortiz, Esaú Ortiz, Juan José Miñana, Óscar Valero
Pubblicato in: Advances in Computational Intelligence - 16th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2021, Virtual Event, June 16–18, 2021, Proceedings, Part I, Issue 12861, 2021, Page(s) 165-177
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-85030-2_14

Thesis dissertations (5)

Detección de corrosión mediante una red neuronal convolucional sencilla (English title: Corrosion detection by means of a lightweight convolutional neural network)

Autori: Francisca SALAS (supervisors: Alberto ORTIZ, Francisco BONNIN-PASCUAL)
Pubblicato in: Degree project (Degree in Industrial Electronics and Automation, University of the Balearic Islands), 2019

Dispositivo de posicionamiento 3D de balizas ultra-wide-band (English title: 3D positioning device for Ultra-Wide-Band beacons)

Autori: Jose CRESPI (supervisors: Francisco BONNIN-PASCUAL, Alberto ORTIZ)
Pubblicato in: Degree project (Degree in Industrial Electronics and Automation, University of the Balearic Islands), 2019

Reconocimiento Visual de Escenas en Entornos Multi-Robot (English title: Visual Scene Recognition in Multi-Robot Environments)

Autori: Miquel A. MOLL (supervisors: Emilio GARCIA-FIDALGO, Alberto ORTIZ)
Pubblicato in: Master Thesis (Master in Industrial Engineering, University of the Balearic Islands), 2019

RRT-CG: una nueva arquitectura de navegación híbrida para robots móviles (English title: RRT-CG - a new architecture for mobile robots hybrid navigation)

Autori: Esau ORTIZ (supervisors: Javier ANTICH, Alberto ORTIZ)
Pubblicato in: Degree project (Degree in Industrial Electronics and Automation, University of the Balearic Islands), 2019

Evaluación y comparación de algoritmos de posicionamiento basados en tecnologíaultra-wide-band (English title: Assessment and Comparison of Positioning Algorithms based on Ultra-Wide Band Technology)

Autori: Marc POZO (supervisors: Francisco BONNIN-PASCUAL, Alberto ORTIZ)
Pubblicato in: Master Thesis (Master in Industrial Engineering, University of the Balearic Islands), 2019