Inspecting work-pieces dimensionally to ensure conformity to design criteria is an integral part of manufacturing. An inspection plan defines measurement and inspection requirements. Problems can arise, however, when the design intent is translated into a set of inspection instructions. Computer Aided Inspection Planning (CAIP) has been the research topic for the last many years. The integratio...

There are an increasing number of older installations in use on the Norwegian Continental shelf. Inspections are a key issue in ensuring the safety of an older installation, and the inspection intervals, inspection methods and its reliability are clearly influencing the safety of the installations. Different approaches for updating inspection plans for older installations are considered in orde...

Metrological inspection planning is among the least explored CAPP domains. This paper examines the basic issues involved in automated dimensional inspection planning that works within an environment of a Generic CAPP Support System. A new algorithmic approach based on multi-attributed spatial graphs is developed for extracting inspection features. The features of specific interest to the planne...

Risk based inspection (RBI) planning for engineering systems is considered. Due to difficulties in formulating computationally tractable approaches for RBI for systems, most procedures hitherto have focused exclusively on individual components or have considered system effects in a very simplified manner only. Several studies have pointed to the importance of taking systems effect into account ...

This paper presents a Multi-objective Hyper-heuristic Evolutionary Algorithm (MHypEA) for the solution of Scheduling and Inspection Planning in Software Development Projects. Scheduling and Inspection planning is a vital problem in software engineering whose main objective is to schedule the persons to various activities in the software development process such as coding, inspection, testing an...

This report overviews a set of recent contributions in the field of path planning that were developed to enable the realization of the autonomous aerial robotic worker for inspection operations. The specific algorithmic contributions address several fundamental challenges of robotic inspection and exploration, and specifically those of optimal coverage planning given an a priori known model of ...

A basic assumption often made in risk/reliability based inspection planning is that a Bayesian approach can be used. This implies that probabilities of failure can be updated in a consistent way when new information (from inspections and repairs) becomes available. The Bayesian approach and a no-crack detection assumption implies that the inspection time intervals usually become longer and long...