Viewpoint placement for inspection planning

Abstract Inspection planning approaches so far have focused on automatically obtaining an optimal set of viewpoints required to cover a given object. While research has provided interesting results, the automatic inspection still not been made part everyday system development process. This is mostly because plans are difficult verify and it impossible compare them laboratory-developed plans. In this work, we give overview available generate-and-test approaches, evaluate their results for various objects finally created by experts. The comparison emphasizes both benefits downsides automated highlights problems which need be tackled in future order make more applicable.