Automatic ship hull inspection using fuzzy logic

Abstract

This article presents the methodology to reconstruct images of ship hulls in turbid waters from an information gathered to a system composed of video camera, laser line-point and sonar scanning, which were incorporated into an underwater vehicle that has a navigation control. The acquired data is processed by diffuse algorithms that have demonstrated low computational complexity and high efficiency in image reconstruction. We present the results of image reconstruction of ship hulls in low visibility conditions.