Arturo Gallozzi

HeritageBot Service Robot assisting in Cultural Heritage

This paper presents results of HeritageBot, a regional research project for developing a robotic platform to be used in Cultural Heritage frameworks. The design and a prototype of HBOT Platform for demo purposes is introduced with features of low-cost construction and user-oriented performance. The design requirements are presented for application in monitoring and working within frames for conservation of goods of Cultural Heritage with characteristics that are aimed for technological transfer and entrepreneurship plans.

A Robotic Mobile Platform for Service Tasks in Cultural Heritage

Recently, the preservation and survey of cultural heritage goods is attracting increasing interest from the media. Several famous historical sites seem to require an increased effort to maintain their preservation. Nevertheless, it is very difficult to find sufficient funds and human resources to fulfil these needs. Accordingly, this paper outlines a specific application of service robotics to cultural heritage, with the aim to reduce the required time and costs for surveying and maintaining cultural heritage goods. These applications require careful attention paid to the proper design of a robotic mobile platform with the features necessary to fulfil tasks of architectonic survey and preservation. To this end, specific operation scenarios have been carefully described in order to identify the specific design requirements and constraints that are raised by, for example, the necessity of operation over delicate surfaces, or the presence of unevenness or obstacles. The authors then propose a design solution for a service robot fit for the analysis, survey and conservation of historical sites, as based on the characteristics of the outlined scenarios. A preliminary prototype is also described herewith, in order to show its engineering feasibility in relation to the simulated operation scenarios.

The Use of Remote Monitored Mobile Tools for the Survey of Architectural and Archaeological Heritage

The use of digital survey technology and representation techniques for the documentation of archaeological sites, has grown significantly in recent years. The contribution focuses on digital survey tools able to return point clouds, applied to remote-controlled mobile platforms. The mobile platforms equipped with XYZ or RGB data acquisition sensors are able to overcome some physical limits not solvable by making use of traditional instruments. The gap created by dimensional reasons it could be exceeded using this kind of tools. All this in order to complete the limit in the traditional survey and increase the level of knowledge of architectural and archaeological artifacts. This research has been made by the Laboratory of the University of Cassino DART, through a series of examples and a trial made on the Casinum Archaeological area, the studio will define the state of art of this subject that it connects indissolubly knowledge and experimental technology.

Designs by Louis de Soissons for the Commonwealth War Cemetery in Cassino

By recovering the original documents and drawings for the World War II cemeteries around Cassino and southern Lazio, most of which were unpublished, the aim of the study is on the one hand to confirm the adequacy of the project for the sites in their current state, and more importantly to construct an historical image of the territory. The section relating to the British Commonwealth cemetery, in particular, examines the site from the point of view of form, landscaping and construction, emphasising the visual relationship between the site and the anthropic natural landscape which is dominated by the Abbey of Monte Cassino. Within the local context in this instance, the Abbey represents a distinctive landmark on the Cassino landscape with which the local community strongly identifies, and which forms an integral part of the cultural heritage of the place.

The HeritageBot Project. Putting Robotics into Survey

The use of remote control robotic systems it’s constantly and rapidly changing, foreshadowing interesting developments especially in the architectural and archaeological research. Digital survey technology and representation techniques for the documentation of archaeological sites, has grown significantly in recent years. The contribution focuses on digital survey tools able to return point clouds, applied to remote-controlled mobile platforms. The mobile platforms equipped with XYZ or RGB data acquisition sensors can overcome some physical limits not solvable by making use of traditional instruments. The gap created by dimensional reasons it could be exceeded using this kind of tools. All this to complete the limit in the traditional survey and increase the level of knowledge of architectural and archaeological artifacts. This research has been made by the Laboratory of the University of Cassino DART, through a series of examples and a trial made on the Casinum Archaeological area, the studio will define the state of art of this subject that it connects indissolubly knowledge and experimental technology.

Francesco Feliciano De Scolari (1470–1542)

Francesco Feliciano De Scolari, also known as “Francesco Lazesio” or simply Lazisio (or Lasezio) in his native Lazise, a master of mathematics and expert surveyor who worked in Verona and other parts of the Italian peninsula in the late fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth century, owes his popularity mainly to the famous treatise known by its original title, “Scala Grimaldelli”. Possessing a wide range of technical skills, he covered many aspects of the engineering disciplines in his work. In addition to some brief biographical notes, this study will explain a few salient aspects of his published works, with particular attention to the use of the “surveyor’s cross”, which is described for the first time in print.

Drawings of Automatas in Middle Age

Aim of this work is to delineate history of automatas from antiquity to Middle Age by focusing the attention on two medieval authors: al Jazari and Villard de Honnecourt. The development of the work will be carry out by the analysis of drawings from ancient texts.