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This wiki contains all the software used at Beam Robotics. From calibration, to mapping to damage detection. All code written by Beamers is to be contained here.
At Beam Robotics, we are a bunch of young, enthusiastic roboticists with domain expertise in a variety of civil engineering fields. The focus of our work is on building robotics platforms and sensor platforms for automated inspection of civil infrastructure.
Our technology is centered around automated 3D mapping on-board mobile robots (i.e, unmanned ground vehicles, unmanned surface vessels, unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned rail mounted systems). We rely on advanced SLAM technologies for 3D mapping, along with machine learning and image processing techniques for automating inspection tasks (such as concrete crack detection/quantification, and change monitoring).
Our platforms are equipped with various robotics sensors including lidars, visible-spectrum cameras, infrared-spectrum cameras, inertial measurement devices, global positioning systems, and wheel encoders.
All code within the BEAMRobotics organization is owned by the founders: Nick Charron, Steve Phillips, and Evan McLaughlin. Any person contributing to the code in this organization is therefore agreeing to share the rights of their contributions with the organization and its founders. For contributors that are University of Waterloo students, this has no conflicts with the University IP policies (see Policy 73) since students own the rights to all IP created as a student, and can therefore share their IP rights as they choose.
- Beam Robotics Map Viewer: https://beamrobotics.github.io/
- Structural Dynamics Identification and Control (SDIC) Lab: http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/snarasim/
- Inpsection of Infrastructure with Mobile Robotics: http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/snarasim/RoboticInspection.html
- Waterloo Autonomous Vehicles (WAVE) Lab: http://wavelab.uwaterloo.ca/