DATA COMMUNICATION AND OFF-BOARD DETECTION ON MACHINE OBJECT OF A DRONE FOR VISUAL INSPECTION IN THE FACTORY SHOP FLOOR AREA

• Main Author: Zaidan Nabil, Daffa
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/56330
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

A drone is one form of unmanned robotics products that can be controlled remotely. One of the uses of a drone is to perform visual inspections of machines in the shop floor area of the factory. This final project is intended to design and implement the drone with assistance from the CAD-IT Consultants (Asia) Pte Ltd. As a consulting firm, CAD-IT has several client companies that have problems performing visual inspections. One of these problems is related to the limitation of human mobility, which causes the long duration of visual inspection. In addition, there are also problems related to human bias in assessing the maintenance needs of a machine. The drone in this final project is expected to help speed up the visual inspection process. The drone also expected to reduce the problem of human bias through visual inspection automation, although this project execution is limited to only doing object detection on milling and grinding machines. This document is one of three documents that explain in more detail about the work of the final project in general. In this document, we will specifically discuss the data communication part and off-board detection on machine object of the drone that was made. The data communication here is regarding the acquisition and transmission of image and drone position estimation. For the object detection part, the preparation stage, model training, and the appearance of the detection results are also discussed. The results of the bottom-up implementation test show that position estimation and image data, either with or without object detection, can be displayed on the user interface. There are four product specifications related to these parts, which are video frame rate, video delay, bounding box accuracy, and detection functionality. The results obtained from the tests on these specifications are in accordance with what has been specified.