Design and Implementation of a Hardware and Software System for Visual Assessment of Bituminous Coating Quality.

Typically, the quality of the bitumen adhesion in asphalt mixtures is assessed manually by a group of experts who assign subjective ratings to the thickness of the residual bitumen coating on the gravel samples. To automate this process, we propose a hardware and software system for visual assessment of bituminous coating quality, which provides the results both in the form of a discrete estimate compatible with the expert one, and in a more general percentage for a set of samples. The developed methodology ensures static conditions of image capturing, insensitive to external circumstances.