Remote surface inspection system

Author

Hayati, S. ; Balaram, J. ; Seraji, H. ; Kim, W.S. ; Tso, K. ; Prasad, V.

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

2-6 May 1993

Firstpage

875

Abstract

An ongoing research and development effort in remote surface inspection of space platforms such as the Space Station Freedom is reported. The space environment and the types of damage for which to search are described. An overview of the remote surface inspection system that has been developed to conduct proof-of-concept demonstrations and to perform experiments in a laboratory environment is provided. Three technology areas are described: (1) manipulator control for sensor placement; (2) automated non-contact inspection to detect and classify flaws; and (3) operator interface to command the system interactively and receive raw or processed sensor data. Initial findings for the automated and human visual inspection tests are reported

Keywords

aerospace control; automatic optical inspection; computer vision; robots; telecontrol; user interfaces; Space Station Freedom; automated visual inspection; manipulator control; noncontact inspection; operator interface; remote surface inspection; sensor placement; space platforms; Automatic control; Automatic testing; Control systems; Humans; Inspection; Research and development; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; Space stations; Space technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 1993. Proceedings., 1993 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3450-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.1993.292254

Filename

292254