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- Title
Toward Fully Automated Inspection of Critical Assets Supported by Autonomous Mobile Robots, Vision Sensors, and Artificial Intelligence.
- Authors
Sanchez-Cubillo, Javier; Del Ser, Javier; Martin, José Luis
- Abstract
Robotic inspection is advancing in performance capabilities and is now being considered for industrial applications beyond laboratory experiments. As industries increasingly rely on complex machinery, pipelines, and structures, the need for precise and reliable inspection methods becomes paramount to ensure operational integrity and mitigate risks. AI-assisted autonomous mobile robots offer the potential to automate inspection processes, reduce human error, and provide real-time insights into asset conditions. A primary concern is the necessity to validate the performance of these systems under real-world conditions. While laboratory tests and simulations can provide valuable insights, the true efficacy of AI algorithms and robotic platforms can only be determined through rigorous field testing and validation. This paper aligns with this need by evaluating the performance of one-stage models for object detection in tasks that support and enhance the perception capabilities of autonomous mobile robots. The evaluation addresses both the execution of assigned tasks and the robot's own navigation. Our benchmark of classification models for robotic inspection considers three real-world transportation and logistics use cases, as well as several generations of the well-known YOLO architecture. The performance results from field tests using real robotic devices equipped with such object detection capabilities are promising, and expose the enormous potential and actionability of autonomous robotic systems for fully automated inspection and maintenance in open-world settings.
- Subjects
AUTONOMOUS robots; MOBILE robots; ARTIFICIAL intelligence; IMAGE sensors; OBJECT recognition (Computer vision); AUTOMATIC test equipment; HUMAN error; TEXTILE machinery; SURGICAL robots
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2024, Vol 24, Issue 12, p3721
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s24123721