ASIP-Planner: Adaptive Planning for UAV Surface Inspection in Partially Known Indoor Environments

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Main Authors: Jin, Hanyu, Xu, Zhefan, Shen, Haoyu, Han, Xinming, Ye, Kanlong, Shimada, Kenji
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Published: 2026
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author Jin, Hanyu
Xu, Zhefan
Shen, Haoyu
Han, Xinming
Ye, Kanlong
Shimada, Kenji
author_facet Jin, Hanyu
Xu, Zhefan
Shen, Haoyu
Han, Xinming
Ye, Kanlong
Shimada, Kenji
contents Indoor infrastructure inspection, such as tunnels and industrial facilities, requires systematic surface coverage to ensure that all inspection targets are properly observed. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer an alternative to manual inspection by conducting map-guided surface inspection using prior structural models. However, in practice, indoor inspection often relies on floorplan-derived reference maps that may not reflect unforeseen obstacles, such as temporary structures or equipment, leading to occluded viewpoints and degraded inspection quality. Existing coverage planning methods typically assume a fully known inspection environment and perform deterministic global viewpoint optimization based on accurate prior maps, making them vulnerable to environmental discrepancies during execution. This work presents an adaptive UAV inspection framework for partially known structured indoor environments. The proposed method integrates a segment-based global coverage planner with an inspection-oriented local view-angle adaptation module. The global planner organizes planar inspection targets into surface-aligned clusters to generate compact viewpoint sequences with improved orientation consistency. The local planner generates collision-free trajectories and adjusts the viewing direction online to mitigate occlusion-induced coverage loss while preserving the planned trajectory structure. The simulation results across randomized scene configurations demonstrate that the proposed global planner achieves near-complete coverage while reducing trajectory length compared to representative baselines. Real-world flight experiments further validate that the framework produces usable inspection data for downstream analysis. These results indicate that the proposed framework improves inspection efficiency and adaptability in partially known structured indoor environments.
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spellingShingle ASIP-Planner: Adaptive Planning for UAV Surface Inspection in Partially Known Indoor Environments
Jin, Hanyu
Xu, Zhefan
Shen, Haoyu
Han, Xinming
Ye, Kanlong
Shimada, Kenji
Robotics
Indoor infrastructure inspection, such as tunnels and industrial facilities, requires systematic surface coverage to ensure that all inspection targets are properly observed. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer an alternative to manual inspection by conducting map-guided surface inspection using prior structural models. However, in practice, indoor inspection often relies on floorplan-derived reference maps that may not reflect unforeseen obstacles, such as temporary structures or equipment, leading to occluded viewpoints and degraded inspection quality. Existing coverage planning methods typically assume a fully known inspection environment and perform deterministic global viewpoint optimization based on accurate prior maps, making them vulnerable to environmental discrepancies during execution. This work presents an adaptive UAV inspection framework for partially known structured indoor environments. The proposed method integrates a segment-based global coverage planner with an inspection-oriented local view-angle adaptation module. The global planner organizes planar inspection targets into surface-aligned clusters to generate compact viewpoint sequences with improved orientation consistency. The local planner generates collision-free trajectories and adjusts the viewing direction online to mitigate occlusion-induced coverage loss while preserving the planned trajectory structure. The simulation results across randomized scene configurations demonstrate that the proposed global planner achieves near-complete coverage while reducing trajectory length compared to representative baselines. Real-world flight experiments further validate that the framework produces usable inspection data for downstream analysis. These results indicate that the proposed framework improves inspection efficiency and adaptability in partially known structured indoor environments.
title ASIP-Planner: Adaptive Planning for UAV Surface Inspection in Partially Known Indoor Environments
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11119