Physically Guided Multiscale Visual Servoing Robot for Automatic Detection of Large Heterogeneous Composite Structure

• Published in: IEEE transactions on instrumentation and measurement Vol. 74; pp. 1 - 11
• Main Authors: Zeng, Yu, Kang, Yukuan, Gao, Bin, Liu, Lei, Zhao, Xiaoming, Ren, Hongjiang, Li, Jiacheng, Lok Woo, Wai
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 2025; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Accuracy; Automatic defect detection; Cameras; Composite materials; Composite structures; Defect detection; Defects; large-scale heterogeneous composite materials; Learning; Manipulators; Mobile robots; physically guided; Platforms; Robots; Solid modeling; Thermography; Three-dimensional displays; Visual control; visual servo; Visual servoing

Optical pulsed thermography (OPT) is an effective method for detecting defects in composite materials and has been widely applied in aerospace and other industries; however, when inspecting large-scale heterogeneous composite materials, conventional fixed detection platforms (which are stationary an...