This article presents an aerial tool towards the autonomous cooperative coverage and inspection of a 3D infrastructure using multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). In the presented approach the UAVs are relying only on their onboard computer and sensory system, deployed for inspection of the 3D structure. In this application each agent covers a different part of the scene autonomously, while avoiding collisions. The visual information collected from the aerial team is collaboratively processed to create the 3D model. The performance of the overall setup has been experimentally evaluated in a realistic outdoor infrastructure inspection experiments, providing sparse and dense 3D reconstruction of the inspected structures.
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Mansouri, S. S., Kanellakis, C., Fresk, E., Kominiak, D., & Nikolakopoulos, G. (2018). Cooperative UAVs as a Tool for Aerial Inspection of the Aging Infrastructure. In Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics (Vol. 5, pp. 177–189). Springer Science and Business Media B.V. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67361-5_12
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