Imagine being able to understand the thermal properties of a building at the millimeter scale by simply sending a drone equipped with a thermal camera to autonomously navigate the building. The aim of this workshop was to strengthen our ROS skills and develop a proof of concept.

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We used ROS for drone navigation and path planning and created a network bridge between Grasshopper and ROS in order to be able to parametrically generate new drone paths.
 

Simultaneously we implemented the point cloud assembler package in ROS to generate a thermal 3D point cloud of a 3D printed clay wall heating system and determine its thermal properties as well as identify thermal leaks.