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Punzo, Giuliano and MacLeod, Charles and Baumanis, Kristaps and Summan, Rahul and Dobie, Gordon and Pierce, Stephen and Macdonald, Malcolm (2019) Bipartite guidance, navigation and control architecture for autonomous aerial inspections under safety constraints. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 95. 1049–1061. ISSN 0921-0296

Mineo, Carmelo and Pierce, Stephen Gareth and Summan, Rahul (2019) Novel algorithms for 3D surface point cloud boundary detection and edge reconstruction. Journal of Computational Design and Engineering, 6 (1). pp. 81-91. ISSN 2288-4300

Morozov, M. and Pierce, S.G. and MacLeod, C.N. and Mineo, C. and Summan, R. (2018) Off-line scan path planning for robotic NDT. Measurement, 122. pp. 284-290. ISSN 1873-412X

Mineo, Carmelo and Riise, Jonathan and Summan, Rahul and MacLeod, Charles N. and Pierce, S. Gareth (2018) Index based triangulation method for efficient generation of large three-dimensional ultrasonic C-scans. Insight: The Journal of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing. ISSN 1354-2575

MacLeod, Charles Norman and Dobie, Gordon and Pierce, Stephen Gareth and Summan, Rahul and Morozov, Maxim (2018) Machining-based coverage path planning for automated structural inspection. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 15 (1). pp. 202-213. ISSN 1545-5955

Mathur, Neha and Summan, Rahul and Dobie, Gordon and West, Graeme and Marshall, Stephen (2017) Error model of misalignment error in a radial 3D scanner. In: IEEE SENSORS 2017, 2017-10-29 - 2017-11-01, Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre.

Mineo, Carmelo and Summan, Rahul and Riise, Jonathan and MacLeod, Charles N. and Pierce, S. Gareth (2017) Introducing a new method for efficient visualization of complex shape 3D ultrasonic phased-array C-scans. In: 2017 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2017, 2017-09-06 - 2017-09-09.

Zhang, D. and Burnham, K. and Mcdonald, L. and Macleod, C. and Dobie, G. and Summan, R. and Pierce, G. (2017) Remote inspection of wind turbine blades using UAV with photogrammetry payload. In: 56th Annual British Conference of Non-Destructive Testing - NDT 2017, 2017-09-04 - 2017-09-07.

Summan, Rahul and Jackson, William and Dobie, Gordon and MacLeod, Charles Norman and Mineo, Carmelo and West, Graeme and Offin, Douglas and Bolton, Gary and Marshall, Stephen and Lille, Alexander (2017) A novel visual pipework inspection system. In: QNDE 2017, 2016-07-16 - 2017-07-21.

Summan, Rahul and Dobie, Gordon and West, Graeme and Marshall, Stephen and Macleod, Charles and Pierce, Gareth (2017) The influence of the spatial distribution of 2D features on pose estimation for a visual pipe mapping sensor. IEEE Sensors Journal. ISSN 1530-437X

Summan, Rahul and Mathur, Neha and Dobie, Gordon and West, Graeme and Marshall, Stephen and MacLeod, Charles and Mineo, Carmelo and Pierce, Gareth; (2017) A new probe concept for internal pipework inspection. In: Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2017). American Nuclear Society, USA. ISBN 9780894487439

Dobie, Gordon and Summan, Rahul and West, Graeme and Stewart, Callum and Bolton, Gary and Offin, Douglas (2017) Development of a novel probe for remote visual inspection of pipework. Nuclear Future, 13. ISSN 1745-2058 (In Press)

Clark, Ruaridh A. and Punzo, Giuliano and MacLeod, Charles N. and Dobie, Gordon and Summan, Rahul and Bolton, Gary and Pierce, Stephen G. and Macdonald, Malcolm (2016) Autonomous and scalable control for remote inspection with multiple aerial vehicles. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 87. pp. 258-268. ISSN 0921-8890

Summan, Rahul and Mathur, Neha and Dobie, Gordon and West, Graeme and Marshall, Stephen and Mineo, Carmelo and MacLeod, Charles Norman and Pierce, Stephen and Kerr, William (2016) Mosaicing for automated pipe scanning. In: 1st 3D Metrology Conference, 2016-11-22 - 2016-11-24.

MacLeod, Charles N. and Summan, Rahul and Dobie, Gordon and Pierce, S. Gareth (2016) Quantifying and improving laser range data when scanning industrial materials. IEEE Sensors Journal, 16 (22). pp. 7999-8009. ISSN 1530-437X

Mineo, Carmelo and MacLeod, Charles and Morozov, Maxim and Pierce, S. Gareth and Lardner, Timothy and Summan, Rahul and Powell, Jonathan and McCubbin, Paul and McCubbin, Coreen and Munro, Gavin and Paton, Scott and Watson, David and Lines, David; (2016) Fast ultrasonic phased array inspection of complex geometries delivered through robotic manipulators and high speed data acquisition instrumentation. In: 2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS). IEEE, FRA. ISBN 978-1-4673-9897-8

Morozov, M. and Riise, J. and Summan, R. and Pierce, S.G. and Mineo, C. and MacLeod, C.N. and Brown, R.H. (2016) Assessing the accuracy of industrial robots through metrology for the enhancement of automated non-destructive testing. In: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI 2016), 2016-09-19 - 2016-09-21, Kongresshaus Baden-Baden. (In Press)

Mineo, Carmelo and MacLeod, Charles and Morozov, Maxim and Pierce, S. Gareth and Summan, Rahul and Rodden, Tony and Kahani, Danial and Powell, Jonathan and McCubbin, Paul and McCubbin, Coreen and Munro, Gavin and Paton, Scott and Watson, David (2016) Flexible integration of robotics, ultrasonics and metrology for the inspection of aerospace components. In: 43rd Review in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, 2016-07-17 - 2016-07-22, Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center. (In Press)

Summan, Rahul and Pierce, Gareth and MacLeod, Charles and Mineo, Carmelo and Riise, Jonathan and Morozov, Maxim and Dobie, Gordon and Bolton, Gary and Raude, Angélique and Dalpé, Colombe and Braumann, Johannes; Chimenti, Dale E. and Bond, Leonard J., eds. (2016) Conformable eddy current array delivery. In: 42nd Annual Review Of Progress In Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation. AIP conference proceedings, 1706 . AIP Publishing, USA. ISBN 9780735413535

Summan, R. and Pierce, S.G. and MacLeod, C.N. and Dobie, G. and Gears, T. and Lester, W. and Pritchett, P. and Smyth, P. (2015) Spatial calibration of large volume photogrammetry based metrology systems. Measurement, 68. pp. 189-200. ISSN 1873-412X

Clark, Ruaridh and Punzo, Giuliano and Dobie, Gordon and Summan, Rahul and MacLeod, Charles Norman and Pierce, Stephen and Macdonald, Malcolm and Bolton, Gregour; (2014) 3D model generation using an airborne swarm. In: E-Book of Abstracts 41st Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation Conference. Iowa State University, USA.

MacLeod, Charles Norman and Pierce, Stephen and Morozov, Maxim and Summan, Rahul and Dobie, Gordon and McCubbin, Paul and McCubbin, Coreen and Dearie, Scott and Munro, Gavin; (2014) Automated metrology and NDE measurements for increased throughput in aerospace component manufacture. In: E-Book of Abstracts 41st Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation Conference. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, p. 335.

Summan, Rahul and Dobie, Gordon and Guarato, Francesco and MacLeod, Charles Norman and Marshall, Stephen and Pierce, Stephen; (2014) Image mosaicing for automated pipe scanning. In: E-Book of Abstracts 41st Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation Conference. Iowa State University, USA.

Clark, Ruaridh and Punzo, Giuliano and Dobie, Gordon and Summan, Rahul and MacLeod, Charles Norman and Pierce, Gareth and Macdonald, Malcolm (2014) Autonomous swarm testbed with multiple quadcopters. In: 1st World Congress on Unmanned Systems Enginenering, 2014-WCUSEng, 2014-07-30 - 2014-08-01.

Pierce, Stephen and Dobie, Gordon and MacLeod, Charles Norman and Summan, Rahul and Baumanis, Kristaps and Macdonald, Malcolm and Punzo, Giuliano; (2014) Visual asset inspection using precision UAV techniques. In: 11th European Conference on Non-Destructive Testing. NDT.net, CZE. ISBN 9788021450189

MacLeod, C. N. and Cao, J. and Pierce, S. G. and Sullivan, J. C. and Pipe, A. G. and Dobie, G. and Summan, R.; (2014) Remotely deployable aerial inspection using tactile sensors. In: 40TH Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation. AIP Publishing, USA. ISBN 978-0-7354-1211-8

Dobie, Gordon and Summan, Rahul and MacLeod, Charles and Pierce, Gareth and Galbraith, Walter; (2014) An automated miniature robotic vehicle inspection system. In: 40TH Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation. AIP Publishing, USA. ISBN 978-0-7354-1211-8

Dobie, Gordon and Galbraith, Walter and MacLeod, Charles Norman and Summan, Rahul and Pierce, Stephen and Gachagan, Anthony; (2014) Automatic ultrasonic robotic array. In: 2013 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS). IEEE, CZE. ISBN 978-1-4673-5685-5

Summan, R. and Pierce, S. and Dobie, G. and Hensman, J. and MacLeod, C. (2014) Practical constraints on real time Bayesian filtering for NDE applications. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 42 (1-2). pp. 181-193. ISSN 0888-3270

Dobie, Gordon and Summan, Rahul and MacLeod, Charles Norman and Pierce, Stephen (2013) Visual odometry and image mosaicing for NDE. NDT and E International, 57. pp. 17-25. ISSN 0963-8695 (In Press)

Jackson, Joseph and Summan, Rahul and Dobie, Gordon and Whiteley, Simon and Pierce, Stephen and Hayward, Gordon (2013) Time-of-flight measurement techniques for airborne ultrasonic ranging. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 60 (2). 343 - 355. ISSN 0885-3010

MacLeod, Charles Norman and Pierce, Stephen and Sullivan, J and Pipe, A and Dobie, Gordon and Summan, Rahul (2013) An active whisking based remotely deployable NDE sensor. IEEE Sensors Journal. ISSN 1530-437X

Pierce, Stephen and Dobie, Gordon and Summan, Rahul and MacLeod, Charles Norman (2012) Reconfigurable robotic platforms for structural non-destructive evaluation. In: 1st International Conference on Through Life Engineering Services TESConf, 2012-11-05 - 2012-11-06. (Unpublished)

Dobie, Gordon and Galbraith, Walter and MacLeod, Charles and Summan, Rahul and Pierce, Gareth; (2012) Synthetic aperture guided wave imaging using a mobile sensor platform. In: 2012 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS). IEEE, DEU. ISBN 978-1-4673-4561-3

Pierce, Stephen and Punzo, Giuliano and Dobie, Gordon and Summan, Rahul and MacLeod, Charles Norman and McInnes, Colin and Biggs, James and Macdonald, Malcolm and Bennet, Derek James (2012) Reconfigurable robotic platforms for structural health monitoring. In: 6th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring & 1st European Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) Society, 2012-07-03 - 2012-07-06.

Dobie, Gordon and Summan, Rahul and Pierce, S. Gareth and Galbraith, Walter and Hayward, Gordon (2011) A noncontact ultrasonic platform for structural inspection. IEEE Sensors Journal, 11 (10). pp. 2458-2468. ISSN 1530-437X

Pierce, Stephen and Worden, Keith and Summan, Rahul and Dobie, Gordon and Hensman, James; (2010) Towards implementation of reconfigurable robotic strategies for structural health monitoring. In: 5th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring EWSHM. Destech Publications, ITA. ISBN 978-1-60595-024-2

Pierce, Stephen and Dobie, Gordon and Summan, Rahul and Mackenzie, Liam and Hensman, James and Worden, Keith and Hayward, Gordon; Kundu, Tribikram, ed. (2010) Positioning challenges in reconfigurable semi-autonomous robotic NDE inspection. In: Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems 2010. SPIE, USA. ISBN 9780819480651

Summan, R. and Dobie, G. and Hensman, J. and Pierce, S.G. and Worden, K. (2010) A probabilistic approach to robotic NDE inspection. American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings, 1211 (1). 1999. ISSN 1551-7616