Robots in inspection and monitoring of buildings and infrastructure: A systematic review

S Halder, K Afsari - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Regular inspection and monitoring of buildings and infrastructure, that is collectively called
the built environment in this paper, is critical. The built environment includes commercial and …

Developments, challenges, and perspectives of railway inspection robots

G Jing, X Qin, H Wang, C Deng - Automation in construction, 2022 - Elsevier
Railway inspection robots have been developed and used to gradually replace human
inspectors in recent years. This paper reviews the recent developments on railway …

Construction inspection & monitoring with quadruped robots in future human-robot teaming: A preliminary study

S Halder, K Afsari, E Chiou, R Patrick… - Journal of Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
Construction inspection and monitoring are key activities in construction projects.
Automation of inspection tasks can address existing limitations and inefficiencies of the …

Knowledge driven approach for smart bridge maintenance using big data mining

Y Jiang, G Yang, H Li, T Zhang - Automation in Construction, 2023 - Elsevier
Life cycle bridge maintenance is highly complex and multi-disciplinary oriented. Advanced
technologies have been widely adopted, but the generated data and information are often …

Review of robot-based automated measurement of vibration for civil engineering structures

S Poorghasem, Y Bao - Measurement, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent advances in robotics and machine vision enable automated measurement of
vibration for civil engineering structures. Various types of robotic platforms such as drones …

Robot-assisted mobile scanning for automated 3D reconstruction and point cloud semantic segmentation of building interiors

D Hu, VJL Gan, C Yin - Automation in Construction, 2023 - Elsevier
Scan-to-BIM technology can help construction stakeholders to obtain accurate BIM models
for building information management and construction progress monitoring. The current …

[HTML][HTML] A robust bridge rivet identification method using deep learning and computer vision

T Jiang, GT Frøseth, A Rønnquist - Engineering Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
Timely and effective inspection ensures safe operation and optimum resource use for
infrastructure maintenance and renewal. Robot advances allow rapid collection of …

Automated defect quantification in concrete bridges using robotics and deep learning

E McLaughlin, N Charron… - Journal of Computing in …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
This work presents a process for automated end-to-end inspection of area defects—
specifically spalls and delaminations—in RC bridges. The process uses a mobile robotic …

Real-time and remote construction progress monitoring with a quadruped robot using augmented reality

S Halder, K Afsari, J Serdakowski, S DeVito, M Ensafi… - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
Construction progress monitoring involves a set of inspection tasks with repetitive in-person
observations on the site. The current manual inspection process in construction is time …

Enabling human–machine collaboration in infrastructure inspections through mixed reality

ZA Al-Sabbag, CM Yeum, S Narasimhan - Advanced Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, we propose a novel end-to-end system called Human–Machine Collaborative
Inspection (HMCI) to enable collaboration between inspectors with Mixed Reality (MR) …