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    • Name

      Paulo Miguel Rodrigues

    • Role

      Researcher

    • Since

      08th July 2019
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    2023

    GeoTec: A System for 3D Reconstruction in Underground Environment (Aveleiras Mine, Monastery of Tibães, NW Portugal)

    Authors
    Pires, A; Dias, A; Rodrigues, P; Silva, P; Santos, T; Oliveira, A; Ferreira, A; Almeida, J; Martins, A; Chaminé, I; Silva, E;

    Publication
    Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation

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    2023

    Simulation Environment for UAV Offshore Wind-Turbine Inspection

    Authors
    Oliveira, A; Dias, A; Santos, T; Rodrigues, P; Martins, A; Silva, E; Almeida, J;

    Publication
    OCEANS 2023 - LIMERICK

    Abstract
    Offshore wind farms are becoming the main alternative to fossil fuels and the future key to mitigating climate change by achieving energy sustainability. With favorable indicators in almost every environmental index, these structures operate under varying and dynamic environmental conditions, leading to efficiency losses and sudden failures. For these reasons, it's fundamental to promote the development of autonomous solutions to monitor the health condition of the construction parts, preventing structural damage and accidents. This paper introduces a new simulation environment for testing and training autonomous inspection techniques under a more realistic offshore wind farm scenario. Combining the Gazebo simulator with ROS, this framework can include multi-robots with different sensors to operate in a customizable simulation environment regarding some external elements (fog, wind, buoyancy...). The paper also presents a use case composed of a 3D LiDAR-based technique for autonomous wind turbine inspection with UAV, including point cloud clustering, model estimation, and the preliminary results under this simulation framework using a mixed environment (offshore simulation with a real UAV platform).

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    2023

    Methodological insights from unmanned system technologies in a rock quarry environment and geomining heritage site: coupling LiDAR-based mapping and GIS geovisualisation techniques

    Authors
    Pires, A; Dias, A; Silva, P; Ferreira, A; Rodrigues, P; Santos, T; Oliveira, A; Freitas, L; Martins, A; Almeida, J; Silva, E; Chaminé, HI;

    Publication
    Arabian Journal of Geosciences

    Abstract

    2020

    3d reconstruction of historical sites using an uav

    Authors
    Silva, P; Dias, A; Pires, A; Santos, T; Amaral, A; Rodrigues, P; Almeida, J; Silva, E;

    Publication
    Robots in Human Life- Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, CLAWAR 2020

    Abstract
    This paper addresses Three-Dimensional (3D) reconstruction of historical sites with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), combining the information from a visible spectrum camera with a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR). The developed solution was validated in two sites located in Monastery of Tibães (Braga, NW Portugal), within the scope of MineHeritage project, which intends to reach society on the importance of raw materials through a historical approach. The outputs obtained from the datasets, resulted in a successfully 3D reconstruction of the two studied sites on the Monastery. Although the research is still ongoing on this topic, this paper is a starting point and an important contribution to this field and this type of scenarios. © CLAWAR Association Ltd.

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