December 14, 2023
Our KIOS CoE team, has received the First Prize at the Cooperative Aerial Robots Inspection Challenge (CARIC) during the flagship 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2023), 13-15 December 2023, held in Singapore.
Our team proposed an innovative solution that effectively coordinated multiple aerial robots (i.e., drones) for automated monitoring and infrastructure inspection.
As part of the GLIMPSE project (Task: Multi-drone indoor exploration and inspection), we have developed a distributed cooperative control system, enabling a team of drones to efficiently address the infrastructure inspection problem.
Our approach, which outperformed competing methods, involved a two-stage innovative methodology. Initially, it entailed reconstructing the search area optimally for obstacle avoidance. This was followed by enabling the 3D inspection of the infrastructure (both outdoors and indoors) through a cooperative control scheme that jointly optimized guidance and camera controls of multiple aerial robots.
Our approach earned us the top spot among 19 international teams. The solutions were evaluated by the organizing committee, comprising five experts in the field, with criteria including inspection quality, infrastructure coverage, and execution time.