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US 2024/0267638 A1Published application
Car underbody inspection robot, performance inspection system using the same, and method thereof
AssigneeOcmobile Co., Ltd.
InventorJun Young PARK
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a car underbody inspection robot that is inserted under the car to inspect the underside of the car while driving. The car underbody inspection robot comprises a robot body, a driving camera, a plurality of underbody inspection cameras, a communication unit, and a control unit.
Claims7
A car underbody inspection robot comprising:
- a robot body including a traveling means having wheels or caterpillars, and a drive motor that provides rotational force to the traveling means;
- a driving camera installed in a front of the robot body to take videos for a front view;
- a plurality of underbody inspection cameras installed in the robot body to photograph an underbody of the car to be inspected;
- a communication unit installed in the robot body to communicate with an outside;
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- a control unit installed in the robot body to control an operation of the driving camera, the underbody inspection cameras, the communication unit, and the driving motor,
- wherein the control unit controls the driving motor to move and stop the robot body along a predetermined path, and the control unit operates the plurality of underbody inspection cameras each time the robot body stops to photograph subject areas of the underbody of the car to be inspected in an overlapping manner,
- wherein after photographing all subject areas of the underbody of the car to be inspected, the control unit processes image data to automatically generate one matching image photo of the underbody of the car to be inspected, or sends the image data to an external device to generate the matching image photo by the external device,
- wherein the plurality of underbody inspection cameras are arranged at predetermined intervals in a width direction of the robot body, and their number can be changed in accordance with a distance between left and right wheels of the car to be inspected.
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A car performance inspection system comprising:
- a car underbody inspection robot that is inserted into a space below the car to be inspected and takes overlapping images of subject areas for the underbody of the car;
- an inspection robot linked module that receives and processes image data taken by the car underbody inspection robot to generate one matching image photo of the underbody of the car to be inspected;
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- a car performance evaluation module that performs performance evaluation based on the matching image generated by the inspection robot linked module and outputs the evaluation results so that they can be checked online.
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A method of car performance inspection comprising steps of:
- (a) inserting a car underbody inspection robot equipped with underbody inspection cameras into a lower space of the car to be inspected;
- (b) driving the car underbody inspection robot to repeatedly move and stop, and selectively operating the underbody inspection cameras at each stop to photograph subject areas of the car to be inspected in an overlapping manner;
- (c) uploading image data photographed by the car underbody inspection robot to a car performance inspection management server;
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- (d) processing the image data by the car performance inspection management server to generate one matching image photo of the underbody of the car to be inspected.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.