rovina: robots for exploration, digital preservation and visualization of archeological sites

Vittorio Amos Ziparo

Robots for Exploration, Digital Preservation, and Visualization

of Archeological Sites

Motivation Exploration, Monitoring and Documentation

State of the Art Expensive, Time Consuming and Dangerous

Case Studies Catacombs of Rome and Naples

● Huge and rich

● High humidity (98%)

● Radon hazard

Goal A better survey and monitoring tool

● Faster: perform surveys in much less time

● Better: bigger, more accurate and richer models

● Safer: no danger for human operators

RobotMobile base, Sensors, Cooling and Power Systems

Point Cloud ReconstructionOcular Robotics RE05 Lidar

The model skeletonCloud registration and global consistency

Adding texturesReconstruction from pictures

ExampleARC-3D reconstruction of Mogao Cave

Learning semantics Better renderings, navigation and classification

● Learn shape and materials

● Learn traversability

● Automated classification of

● objects

● areas

Mobility is a major challenge!large 3D Maze on rough terrain

Navigation Mobility in harsh environments

● 3D navigation system

● probabilistic,

● semantic and

● information-theoretic

Mission Control InterfaceMulti-Modal mode

Mission Control InterfaceSupervisory and dialog modes

Cloud-based archiveTime machine and virtual archeological site

1. General Public: high fidelity 3D interactive experience

2. Historians: semantically rich digital archive

3. Engineers: advanced measurement and diagnosis tool

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Thanks!

navigation & exploration

semantic analysis

photogrammetry

SLAM and Morphometry

robot & HCI/HRI

user requirements

Consortium Partners and Teams

Project OverviewCore Components & Consortium