Object Detection and Avoidance for Infrastructure Inspection Equipment

Kinemek为采矿业设计和制造安全且易于操作的设备。他们开发了一系列产品，将联合收割机自调高臂与探地雷达（GPR）传感器相结合，扫描矿背的地下，以确定骨料的成分，并检测矿背（矿顶）中存在的结构问题。虽然这些产品对矿山来说效果很好，但它们希望通过制造设备来定位和跟踪日益恶化的基础设施并确定其健康状况，从而在基础设施管理方面获得市场份额。为此，他们目前正在开发一种创新的下一代产品，该产品将在当前的手臂设计上增加功能，从而能够扫描更多种类的基础设施。该臂将是多位置和摆动的，除了矿井、隧道和立交桥的天花板外，还可以瞄准墙壁，以扫描可能导致安全问题的地下缺陷和问题。下一代手臂需要GPR传感器自动移动到感测到的障碍物之外，例如灯、标牌、电缆和管道。这将由一个或多个传感器来完成，这些传感器可以探测到障碍物。

Kinemek designs and builds equipment for the mining industry that is safe and easy to operate. They havedeveloped a series of products which combine self height adjusting arms with a GPR (ground penetratingradar) sensors to scan the subsurface of the mine back to determine the composition of aggregates and detect where structural problems exist in the mine back (mine ceiling). While these products work well for mines,they would like to gain market share in infrastructure management by creating equipment to locate and track deteriorating infrastructure and determine its health. To do this, they are currently developing an innovativenext generation product that will have increased functionality over the current arm designs enabling scanning of an increased variety of infrastructure. This arm will be multi-positional and oscillating, targeting the walls inaddition to the ceilings of mines, tunnels, and overpasses to scan for subsurface defects and problems that may lead to safety concerns. The next generation arm requires the GPR sensor to be automatically moved out of the way of obstacles sensed, such as lights, signage, cables, and pipes. This would be accomplished by one or moresensors that can detect the obstacles.