Hardware/Software solutions for an efficient thermal scanning mobile robot

The use of robotic platforms greatly facilitates the reconstructions of 3D models of buildings and automates tasks that would be tiring and inaccurate when carried out manually. In the specific area of thermal monitoring of buildings, robots can also develop an important role providing dense temperature information of envelopes and structural elements. However, the current robot-based systems that extract thermal models can work under serious restrictions that concern, among others, the complexity of the scene, autonomy, navigation, and computation. This article discusses the limitations and restrictions of the current mobile scanning robots for thermal mapping inside buildings and proposes a thermal scanning robot that solves some of these issues.