Enhanced system and method for control of robotic devices

1. A system for robotic device control and data acquisition, comprising:

a plurality of network-connected hardware sensors;

a network-connected robotic device control system computer comprising a processor, a database, a memory, and program code, wherein the program code, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to:

receive, from the plurality of network-connected hardware sensors, via the network, a plurality of sensor-based data point clouds, each point cloud comprising a plurality of sensor-based data points associated to a physical object via the network;

an enhanced network-connected robotic device control application computer comprising another processor, a database, a memory, and another program code, wherein the another program code when executed by the another processor, cause the another processor to:

receive, via the network, the plurality of sensor-based data point clouds from the robotic device control system computer, and

for at least a portion of the plurality of sensor-based data point clouds of each point cloud, add one or more properties, the one or more properties comprising information whether a data point is in, on, or outside the physical object;

a network-connected database computer comprising a further processor, a database, a memory, and further program code, wherein the further program code when executed by the further processor, cause the further processor to:

store the plurality of sensor-based data point clouds received from the robotic device control system and the enhanced robotic device control application computer,

wherein at least the plurality of sensor-based data point clouds are stored according to a sparse-point model,

wherein upon only a subset of the plurality of sensor-based data points from a first point cloud corresponding to the physical object are available, the plurality of sensor-based data point clouds from a second point cloud are combined with the plurality of sensor-based data point clouds from the first point cloud to form an enhanced data point cloud to achieve a best possible point cloud for maximum completion of the enhanced data point cloud associated to the physical object,

wherein superfluous sensor-based data points of the plurality of sensor-based data points are removed as noise from the sparse point cloud model,

wherein sensor-based data points with no properties are removed from the sparse point cloud model,

wherein at least a portion of the second point cloud comprises one or more sensor-based data points not available in the first point cloud, and

wherein the enhanced robotic device control application computer converts at least the sensor-based data for each point cloud between the sparse point cloud model and a vectorized object model in a two-way reversible manner to optimize data processing for data originated from the plurality of network-connected hardware sensors associated to the physical object.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the physical object is a civil engineering structure.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein a database comprises at least a relational database.

4. A method for robotic device control and data acquisition, comprising steps of:

receiving, at a robotic device control system including a plurality of network-connected hardware sensors via a network, a plurality of point clouds, each point cloud comprising sensor-based data;

for each point cloud, processing, at the robotic device control system, a plurality of sensor-based data;

for at least a portion of the plurality of sensor-based data, adding, by an enhanced robotic device control application computer, one or more properties, the one or more properties comprising information whether a data point is in, on, or outside an associated physical object;

storing, in a database computer, the sensor-based data for each point cloud in a sparse-point model;

upon only a subset of sensor-based data points from a first point cloud corresponding to the physical object are available, combining, by the enhanced robotic device control application computer, sensor-based data points from a second point cloud with sensor-based data points from the first point cloud to form an enhanced data point cloud to achieve a best possible point cloud for maximum completion of the enhanced data point cloud associated to the physical object, wherein at least a portion of the second point cloud comprises sensor-based data points not available in the first point cloud; and

converting at least the sensor-based data for each point cloud, using the enhanced robotic device control application computer, between a vectorized model and the sparse-point model in a two-way reversible manner to optimize data processing for data originated from the plurality of network-connected hardware sensors associated to the physical object.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising step of producing a plurality of mission record flat files based at least in part on received sensor-based data, the flat files comprising a plurality of data pertaining to the plurality of sensor-based data.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising step of building a memory structure of data comprising at least a portion of the plurality of sensor-based data, the memory structure being based at least in part on a mission record flat file.

7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising step of building the memory structure based at least in part on a size of at least a memory flat file.