rovina: robots for exploration, digital preservation and visualization of archeological sites
DESCRIPTION
Mapping and digitizing archeological sites is an important task to preserve cultural heritage and to make it accessible to the public. Current systems for digitizing sites typically build upon static 3D laser scanning technology that is brought into archeological sites by humans. This is acceptable in general, but prevents the digitization of sites that are inaccessible by humans. In the field of robotics, however, there has recently been a tremendous progress in the development of autonomous robots that can access hazardous areas. ROVINA aims at extending this line of research with respect to reliability, accuracy and autonomy to enable the novel application scenario of autonomously mapping of areas of high archeological value that are hardly accessible.TRANSCRIPT
Vittorio Amos Ziparo
Robots for Exploration, Digital Preservation, and Visualization
of Archeological Sites
Motivation Exploration, Monitoring and Documentation
State of the Art Expensive, Time Consuming and Dangerous
Case Studies Catacombs of Rome and Naples
● Huge and rich
● High humidity (98%)
● Radon hazard
Goal A better survey and monitoring tool
● Faster: perform surveys in much less time
● Better: bigger, more accurate and richer models
● Safer: no danger for human operators
RobotMobile base, Sensors, Cooling and Power Systems
The model skeletonCloud registration and global consistency
Adding texturesReconstruction from pictures
Learning semantics Better renderings, navigation and classification
● Learn shape and materials
● Learn traversability
● Automated classification of
● objects
● areas
Mobility is a major challenge!large 3D Maze on rough terrain
Navigation Mobility in harsh environments
● 3D navigation system
● probabilistic,
● semantic and
● information-theoretic
Mission Control InterfaceMulti-Modal mode
Mission Control InterfaceSupervisory and dialog modes
Cloud-based archiveTime machine and virtual archeological site
1. General Public: high fidelity 3D interactive experience
2. Historians: semantically rich digital archive
3. Engineers: advanced measurement and diagnosis tool
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navigation & exploration
semantic analysis
photogrammetry
SLAM and Morphometry
robot & HCI/HRI
user requirements
Consortium Partners and Teams
Project OverviewCore Components & Consortium