The Visual Inspection Methodology for Ceiling Utilizing the Blimp

Nitta, Yoshihiro; Inai, Shinsuke; Matsumura, Kunio; Ishida, Makoto; Onai, T.; Nishitani, Akira

doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2017.04.482

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“…In this case, blimps become far more user friendly. The payload capacity of a standard blimp is quite small depending on the size (Nitta et al, 2017).…”

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Aerial Platform Reliability for Flood Monitoring Under Various Weather Conditions: A Review

Zakaria

Mahadi

Abdullah

et al. 2018

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Flood is an annual disaster in Malaysia, especially in the east coast region. Recently, other regions in Malaysia have also experience devastating flood. A flood aerial monitoring is one of the approaches that involved in the flood disaster management. Compared to space borne remote sensing, aerial platforms are much reliable to obtain higher spatial resolution and real time data. Due to cloud coverage and revisit limitations, space borne remote sensing approach is a less desirable option for flood monitoring. In this paper, a review of existing aerial platforms that perform remote sensing task under various weather conditions, specifically for flood monitoring is presented. There are four types of aerial platforms being reviewed, which are rotary wings, fixed wings, blimps and helikites. The main criteria of the review are the payload capacity, endurance (flight time), altitudes, tolerable wind speed, cost, vertical take-off and landing ability, and the ability to perform under various weather conditions, such as heavy precipitation and winds. From this review, the applications of aerial platform in recent studies never mentioned the capability of aerial platform used in such weather conditions. From all types of aerial platform discussed, helikite seems to be the most suitable to fly in extreme weather. The only drawback is that helikite has mobility issue since it is tethered to the ground. The application of helikite is useful for a small area coverage of flood monitoring. The authors will continue the study to evaluate the reliability of helikite in performing such task in the future.</p>

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“…In this case, blimps become far more user friendly. The payload capacity of a standard blimp is quite small depending on the size (Nitta et al, 2017).…”

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“…Rotary Wing (Nitta et al, 2017) Demonstrates a method of aerial visual inspection for a ceiling compartment of a gymnasium using an indoor blimp carrying a simple affordable Wi-Fi camera. The aim of the study was to locate the damage and captures photographic images of the damaged section of the ceiling.…”

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Aerial Platform Reliability for Flood Monitoring Under Various Weather Conditions: A Review

Zakaria

Mahadi

Abdullah

et al. 2018

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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“…In the case of robots for ceiling inspection, there has been modest development. The Blimp robot was developed to inspect the high ceiling of a gymnasium for damage without on-site engineers [ 17 ]. Since it is a blimp robot, it is lightweight as a balloon and can access great heights efficiently with minimal energy loss.…”

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confidence: 99%

Falcon: A False Ceiling Inspection Robot

Muthugala

Apuroop

Padmanabha

et al. 2021

Sensors

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Frequent inspections are essential for false ceilings to maintain the service infrastructures, such as mechanical, electrical, and plumbing, and the structure of false ceilings. Human-labor-based conventional inspection procedures for false ceilings suffer many shortcomings, including safety concerns. Thus, robot-aided solutions are demanded for false ceiling inspections similar to other building maintenance services. However, less work has been conducted on developing robot-aided solutions for false ceiling inspections. This paper proposes a novel design for a robot intended for false ceiling inspections named Falcon. The compact size and the tracked wheel design of the robot allow it to traverse obstacles such as runners and lighting fixtures. The robot’s ability to autonomously follow the perimeter of a false ceiling can improve the productivity of the inspection process since the heading of the robot often changes due to the nature of the terrain, and continuous heading correction is an overhead for a teleoperator. Therefore, a Perimeter-Following Controller (PFC) based on fuzzy logic was integrated into the robot. Experimental results obtained by deploying a prototype of the robot design to a false ceiling testbed confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed PFC in perimeter following and the robot’s features, such as the ability to traverse on runners and fixtures in a false ceiling.

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“…Many research interests in robotic solutions have been taken up in the recent years to aid human workers in the field of building maintenance [15,16]. While any maintenance personnel crawling or moving on the suspended ceiling would cause weight overloading and damage to the suspended ceiling substructure and components [8], these robotics solutions are designed with a small, lightweight build, and are equipped with a wireless camera to navigate tight and hard-to-reach spaces while performing visual inspection [17][18][19]. A few of such methods include the three-wheel type, crawler-type suspended ceiling inspection robot as shown in [17] and the Falcon inspection robot.…”

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“…While any maintenance personnel crawling or moving on the suspended ceiling would cause weight overloading and damage to the suspended ceiling substructure and components [8], these robotics solutions are designed with a small, lightweight build, and are equipped with a wireless camera to navigate tight and hard-to-reach spaces while performing visual inspection [17][18][19]. A few of such methods include the three-wheel type, crawler-type suspended ceiling inspection robot as shown in [17] and the Falcon inspection robot. These robots can be easily deployed on the floor of suspended false ceiling panels, which are in turn supported by structures affixed to the true ceiling.…”

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Robot-Inclusive False Ceiling Design Guidelines

Yeo

Samarakoon

et al. 2021

Buildings

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False ceilings are often utilised in residential and commercial spaces as a way to contain and conceal necessary but unattractive building infrastructure, including mechanical, electrical, and plumbing services. Concealing such elements has made it difficult to perform periodic inspection safely for maintenance. To complement this, there have been increasing research interests in mobile robots in recent years that are capable of accessing hard-to-reach locations, thus allowing workers to perform inspections remotely. However, current initiatives are met with challenges arising from unstructured site conditions that hamper the robot’s productivity for false ceiling inspection. The paper adopts a top-down approach known as “Design for Robots”, taking into account four robot-inclusive design principles: activity, accessibility, safety, observability. Falcon, a class of inspection robots, was used as a benchmark to identify spatial constraints according to the four principles. Following this, a list of false ceiling design guidelines for each category are proposed.

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The Visual Inspection Methodology for Ceiling Utilizing the Blimp

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Aerial Platform Reliability for Flood Monitoring Under Various Weather Conditions: A Review

Aerial Platform Reliability for Flood Monitoring Under Various Weather Conditions: A Review

Falcon: A False Ceiling Inspection Robot

Robot-Inclusive False Ceiling Design Guidelines

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