Robotic Systems for Pavement Lane Painting Operations

This paper deals with fully automating the pavement lane painting operations utilizing robotic technology. This study includes a novel design of robot structure that can be easily installed on support commercial truck and image processing algorithms that can recognize deteriorated lane marks. With this robot system, a single operator within a cab is capable of tracking the existing faded lane mark and performing re-painting operations on-site, so that the dangerous and time consuming manual operations can be eliminated. The feasibility of the developed robot was explored through the experiments with image data acquired from real pavement surface.