The HeritageBot Project. Putting Robotics into Survey

Abstract

The use of remote control robotic systems it’s constantly and rapidly changing, foreshadowing interesting developments especially in the architectural and archaeological research. Digital survey technology and representation techniques for the documentation of archaeological sites, has grown significantly in recent years. The contribution focuses on digital survey tools able to return point clouds, applied to remote-controlled mobile platforms. The mobile platforms equipped with XYZ or RGB data acquisition sensors can overcome some physical limits not solvable by making use of traditional instruments. The gap created by dimensional reasons it could be exceeded using this kind of tools. All this to complete the limit in the traditional survey and increase the level of knowledge of architectural and archaeological artifacts. This research has been made by the Laboratory of the University of Cassino DART, through a series of examples and a trial made on the Casinum Archaeological area, the studio will define the state of art of this subject that it connects indissolubly knowledge and experimental technology.