Robotics and automation for NDT inspection of heritage structures

The project aims to reflect on the role that robotics and automation can assume in the context of heritage assessment and conservation. The success of any retrofit or repair intervention ultimately depends on having a proper understanding of the structure. The project proposes three specific objectives:
(i) to promote exchanges and collaboration among researchers of different disciplines and countries from leading research institutions from their regions;
(ii) to identify different solutions that, by integrating information technologies (IT) and robotics (namely automation, robotic, digitization and AI), can improve our current capabilities to carry out structural inspection and diagnosis of heritage buildings; and
(iii) based on the solutions identified, to develop one prototype that is able to show the potential of using automation and robotics for the inspection of heritage structures and to apply such system on one case study.