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Project
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Name: Creating thermal information models of existing buildings by active exploration 
Project status: From: 2015-01-01 To: 2016-12-31 (Completed)
Type (Programme): BILAT 
Project funding: -
International partner
Organisation Name: Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg; Informatics VII_Robotics and Telematics  
Organisation adress: Am Hubland D-97074 Würzburg  
Organisation country: Njemačka 
Contact person name: Prof. Dr. Andreas Nüchter 
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Croatian partner
Organisation name: Fakultet elektrotehnike i računarstva 
Organisation address: Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb, Hrvatska 
Contact person name: prof. dr. sc. Ivan Petrović
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Short description of project
Europeans need to save energy. Today at least 20% of the energy used in Europe is wasted. By reducing energy consumption, Europe will not only address environmental and climate exchange issues, but also its dependence on fossil fuels imported from outside the Union’s borders – unfortunately, often unstable regions. Mayor energy savings can be achieved by preventing heating and air conditioning losses due to thermal bridging, air leakage, discontinuous insulation, air infiltration and structural defects in buildings, as much as 39% and 32% of the energy used is required for heating, cooling and ventilation in residential and commercial buildings, respectively. To create a methodology for cost effective renovation of existing buildings it is essential to have detailed semantic thermal 3D models thereof.   The main idea of this project is to extract precise digital models from existing buildings. Both perspectives are considered: indoor and outdoor. To this end, we combine methods from robotics with photogrammetry and remote sensing and build surveying platforms. From the gaged sensor information, scene descriptions are generated and interpreted. The resulting information is put into a building information model (BIM), i.e. digital representations of physical and functional characteristics of the building. The BIM forms the basis for guiding the user for maintenance and renovation actions.  
Short description of the task performed by Croatian partner
Professor Petrovic's group provides a similar hardware setup and strong competences in motion planning as well as control and localization of mobile robots. Although the harware setup of both groups is similar, they provide additional testing and validations of the developed methodes both in Croatia and Germany.  


   

 


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