ANALYSIS OF GROUP MAINTENANCE STRATEGY -ROAD PAVEMENT AND SEWERAGE PIPES-

Landmark-Based Autonomous Navigation in Sewerage Pipes

We describe a method for an autonomous mobile robot to navigate through a system of sewerage pipes. Landmarks signalling positions in the pipe system have to be detected and classi ed, where classi cation is allowed to be unreliable. Self localization is interpreted as a partially observable Markov decision problem and solved accordingly. The method is implemented and used on a prototype robot ...

Pavement Evaluation and Pavement Maintenance

IN T R O D U C T IO N T he In d iana D epartm ent of Highways has em barked upon es­ tab lish ing a Pavem ent M anagem ent System (PMS). As a p a rt of this, the Jo in t H ighway R esearch Project has had an on-going research p ro ­ ject for the past several years dealing with m ethods of m easuring pave­ m ent condition in Ind iana . Research at P urdue on the use of roughness m easuring devic...

An Innovative Strategy for Maintenance of Highway Pavement

Highway pavement are deteriorating fast due to lack of timely maintenance, leading to higher vehicle operating costs, increasing number of accidents etc. Thus, timely maintenance of the highway pavement is essential. Because, once pavements start to deteriorate; they deteriorate rapidly beyond the point where maintenance is effective. Thus, there is an urgent need to develop a strategy for main...

High Speed Ground Penetrating Radar for Road Pavement and Bridge Structural Inspection and Maintenance

Assessment of distance-based multi-attribute group decision-making methods from a maintenance strategy perspective

Maintenance has been acknowledged by industrial management as a significant influencing factor of plant performance. Effective plant maintenance can be realized by developing a proper maintenance strategy. However, selecting an appropriate maintenance strategy is difficult because maintenance is a non-repetitive task such as production activity. Maintenance also does not leave a consistent trac...