Industrial archeology is a branch of archeology that studies applying an interdisciplinary approach, all the evidence related to the industrialization process from its very beginning in order to learn more about the history of the past and present industry. These evidences are: the places of production processes and technologies, the archaeological traces generated by these means and machinery by which these processes are implemented, the products of these processes, all the written sources related to them, the iconographic sources, oral, etc.. The period studied industrial archeology is that from the second half of the 18th century to the present day. The industrial archeology relies on the application of many disciplines for its study, including: archeology, architecture, engineering, technology, planning.
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Digital and Mechatronic Technologies Applied to the Survey of Brownfields
Assunta Pelliccio (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy),
Erika Ottaviano (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy), and
Pierluigi Rea (University of Cagliari, Italy)
Copyright: © 2015
|Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8379-2.ch027
Abstract
The brownfields are amongst the most relevant historical evidences of the socio-economic heritage of populations. The rehabilitation of these sites, often aimed at inserting them in a newly conceived connective tissue of the cities, requires complete and accurate knowledge of their historical and architectural value: the former use of spaces, constructive technologies, environmental conditions and present deterioration must be investigated. The width and complexity of these architectural/urban areas requires complex survey methodologies. These analyses take advantage from digital mechatronic tools such as hybrid rover equipped with sensors to provide information on the damage of structures, degradation of plaster and in general on the state of the materials forming the different parts of the brownfield. This Chapter analyze a procedure combining traditional survey with mobile robot technology, aimed at recovering the geometrical and architectural features of these complex sites. The mechatronic survey is schematized as composed by main five tasks, which are described in the Chapter.