A user perspective on the rovina project

ROVINA is a research project funded by the EC within FP7. ROVINA will provide tools for mapping and digitizing archeological sites-especially for difficult to access sites-to improve the preservation and dissemination of cultural heritage. Current systems often rely on static 3D lidar, traditional photogrammetry techniques, and are manually operated. This is expensive, time consuming, and can be even dangerous for the operators. ROVINA exploits the strong progress in robotics to efficiently survey hazardous areas and aims at making further progress in the reliability, accuracy, and autonomy of such systems.