Abstract
Accessing remote objects that might be hard for a human being to reach to has become feasible by the use of mobile robots, which can be equipped with numerous gadgets to facilitate the purpose of using this robot. Scanning a remote object to study it or build a model of it is one of the applications where such mobile robots can be used for. This research aims at providing a cheap and efficient robot that performs 3D scanning of remote objects in order to build a model at the controller’s station. The robot has its own obstacle avoidance and distance calculation mechanism, but it can also be remotely controlled. Images of the object are captured by two cameras; one normal camera and another Time-of-Flight dedicated camera for capturing the depth of the object. The collected fragments of the images collected by the scanning process are sent wirelessly and securely to the controller, where a CAD model is built of the scanned object’s received data. The application will be applied on Festo Robotino because of its movement that supports this job as it uses Swedish Wheel drive.
Highlights
Assuming a wireless controlled Robot in a remote area, and an operator in the base station, if the operator wants to get a Computer Aided Design (CAD) model or 3D print something from the environment where Robot is, it is not possible unless the Robot brings back the object with it
The suggested algorithm will use Robot camera in order to take frames for object and send them all wirelessly to base station, where they will be processed and a CAD model can be created by just using these frames, a 3D model can be printed out, all immediately without the need to have any physical access to area
Others (Fei el al., 2015) used a laser scanner that was mounted on a robotic arm in in path planning applications to simulate the terrain of the path, other applications used an airborne laser scanner to estimate the mas.ccsenet.org
Summary
Assuming a wireless controlled Robot in a remote area, and an operator in the base station, if the operator wants to get a CAD model or 3D print something from the environment where Robot is (such as a rock or a tree for example), it is not possible unless the Robot brings back the object with it. The suggested algorithm will use Robot camera in order to take frames for object and send them all wirelessly to base station, where they will be processed and a CAD model can be created by just using these frames, a 3D model can be printed out, all immediately without the need to have any physical access to area. There are multiple areas where 3D copies of certain object need to be created, most important are buildings with cultural heritage, dangerous objects like land mines, hard or impossible to reach objects (like some human organs or tumours)
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