Unipi Team Leader: prof. Walter Salvatore, Dip. di Ingegneria Civile e Industriale

Desdemona aims to develop novel design methods, systems, procedures and technical solutions to integrate sensing and automation technologies for self-inspection and self-monitoring of steel structures.

We identify, develop and test innovative technological solutions to enlarge structural life of steel infrastructure, to decrease the cost associated to inspection and maintenance and to improve human safety.

We develop:

• Procedure for steel defect detection through data fusion of processed images and vibration measurements;
• Automation in defect image acquisition by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), cable-driven and ground mobile robots and automatic data storage in bridge management systems;
• Embedding sensor systems to revalorize and to transform steel elements and structures into self-diagnostic elements
• Data-driven automatic procedure for alert in monitored structures
   

The project includes design and development of:

• Several experimental lab-based apparatusù
• Case studies of real steel structures equipped by an automatic and robotic embedded inspection system spread across the European involved countries
   

Coordinator

Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy

Beneficiaries

• Universidad de Castilla – La Mancha, Spain
• Universidade do Porto, Portugal
• Università di Pisa, Italy
• Institut Francais des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l’Amenagement et des Reseaux, France
• Aiviewgroup srl, Italy
• Sixense systems, France
• Ecisa compania general de construcciones sa, Spain

Partners

• Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italy
• Universidad de Alicante, Spain
• Inria, France

Start date 01/06/2018

End date 31/05/2021

Duration 36 months

Project cost 2.200.885,75 €

Project funding 1.320.531,45€

Unipi quota 124.505,1 €

Call title RFCS-2018

Unipi role Beneficiary

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