4 papers
Maritime Vessel Tank Inspection using Aerial Robots: Experience from the field and dataset release
Mihir Dharmadhikari, Nikhil Khedekar, Paolo De Petris +3
This paper presents field results and lessons learned from the deployment of aerial robots inside ship ballast tanks. Vessel tanks including ballast tanks and cargo holds present d…
Autonomous Exploration and General Visual Inspection of Ship Ballast Water Tanks using Aerial Robots
Mihir Dharmadhikari, Paolo De Petris, Mihir Kulkarni +7
This paper presents a solution for the autonomous exploration and inspection of Ballast Water Tanks (BWTs) of marine vessels using aerial robots. Ballast tank compartments are crit…
An Online Self-calibrating Refractive Camera Model with Application to Underwater Odometry
Mohit Singh, Mihir Dharmadhikari, Kostas Alexis
This work presents a camera model for refractive media such as water and its application in underwater visual-inertial odometry. The model is self-calibrating in real-time and is f…
Semantics-aware Exploration and Inspection Path Planning
Mihir Dharmadhikari, Kostas Alexis
This paper contributes a novel strategy for semantics-aware autonomous exploration and inspection path planning. Attuned to the fact that environments that need to be explored ofte…