Controlling a system for underwater visual inspection

• Autor(a) principal: Drews Junior, Paulo Lilles Jorge
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Kuhn, Vinicius Nizolli, Gomes, Sebastião Cícero Pinheiro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da FURG (RI FURG)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.furg.br/handle/1/4809
• topic: Control; Computer vision; Tracking

Nowadays, the ocean plays a fundamental role in the global economy, mainly due to oil extraction industry. It makes the environment be populated with human-made structures that needs to be inspected and maintained. In this context, this paper details a system for online detect an underwater cable-like target using computer vision algorithms, as well as an automatic control of a vehicle to tracking it. This system could be used to assist a human operator during visual inspection tasks. This work is concluded with a series of tests and analyses aiming to the system validation.