Towards fully automated unmanned aerial vehicle-enabled bridge inspection: Where are we at?

C Zhang, Y Zou, F Wang, E del Rey Castillo… - … and Building Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been increasingly used for
bridge inspection. Although UAVs are expected to automate the whole bridge inspection …

Visual structural inspection datasets

E Bianchi, M Hebdon - Automation in construction, 2022 - Elsevier
As research has turned to the success of artificial intelligence to augment the inspection
process, the need for image data is particularly present. However, across the structural …

Integrated inspection of QoM, QoP, and QoS for AOI industries in metaverses

Y Wang, Y Tian, J Wang, Y Cao, S Li… - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Briefing: With the rapid development of information technologies such as digital twin,
extended reality, and blockchain, the hype around “metaverse” is increasing at astronomical …

Cognitive-based crack detection for road maintenance: an integrated system in cyber-physical-social systems

L Fan, D Cao, C Zeng, B Li, Y Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Effective road maintenance can not only achieve a balance between limited resources and
long-term high-efficiency performance of road but also reduce the loss of life and property …

Real-time concrete damage detection using deep learning for high rise structures

P Kumar, S Batchu, SR Kota - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, the number of aging high-rise civil structures is growing throughout the world,
and most of them use concrete as a building material. Concrete may lose its strength due to …

Quantized control capable of appointed-time performances for quadrotor attitude tracking: Experimental validation

X Shao, L Xu, W Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a quantized control capable of appointed-time performances for quadrotor
attitude tracking is investigated. A continuous and piecewise behavior boundary, rather than …

Adaptive formation control for unmanned aerial vehicles with collision avoidance and switching communication network

Y Yu, C Chen, J Guo, M Chadli… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A collision-free formation control problem for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with
directed switching topologies and disturbances is investigated. A novel distributed control …

Surface defects 3D localization for fluorescent magnetic particle inspection via regional reconstruction and partial-in-complete point clouds registration

Q Wu, Z Hu, X Qin, B Huang, K Dong, A Shi - Expert Systems with …, 2024 - Elsevier
Accurate three-dimensional localization of defects plays a crucial role in the automated
defect marking and grinding process. However, this task becomes increasingly intricate …

Direction control and adaptive path following of 3-D snake-like robot motion

Z Cao, D Zhang, MC Zhou - IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work investigates direction control and path following of a 3-D snake-like robot. In order
to control such robots accurately, this work researches the relationships between its phase …

LiDAR SLAM with a wheel encoder in a featureless tunnel environment

I Filip, J Pyo, M Lee, H Joe - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) represents a crucial algorithm in the
autonomous navigation of ground vehicles. Several studies were conducted to improve the …