Railway inspection robots have been developed and used to gradually replace human
inspectors in recent years. This paper reviews the recent developments on railway …

Bridge inspection and monitoring are usually used to evaluate the status and integrity of
bridge structures to ensure their safety and reliability. Computer vision (CV)-based methods …

Conventional visual bridge inspection methods are time consuming and may put the
inspector in dangerous situations. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been recently …

The non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of civil infrastructure has been an active area of
research in recent decades. The traditional inspection of civil infrastructure mostly relies on …

This paper presents a framework for automated defect inspection of the concrete structures,
made up of data collection, defect detection, scene reconstruction, defect assessment and …

The widespread use of mobile devices and sensors has motivated data-driven applications
that can leverage the power of big data to benefit many aspects of our daily life, such as …

Inspections are important to ensuring adequate safety and performance of a bridge
throughout its service life. Bridge inspections are highly connected with maintenance …

This paper introduces an autonomous system employing multirotor unmanned aerial
vehicles for fast 3D exploration and inspection of vast, unknown, dynamic, and complex …

Abstract The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for bridge inspection has gained
popularity recently; however, accurately localising the UAV in GPS-denied areas is still …

This paper presents the design, modeling and control of a fully actuated aerial robot for
infrastructure contact inspection as well as its localization system. Health assessment of …