Review of non-destructive civil infrastructure evaluation for bridges: State-of-the-art robotic platforms, sensors and algorithms

H Ahmed, HM La, N Gucunski - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
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 …

Review of GPR activities in Civil Infrastructures: Data analysis and applications

F Hou, X Rui, X Fan, H Zhang - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ground penetration radar (GPR) technology has received in-depth analysis and rapid
development in the field of civil engineering. GPR data analysis is one of the basic and …

Automatic hyperbola detection and fitting in GPR B-scan image

W Lei, F Hou, J Xi, Q Tan, M Xu, X Jiang, G Liu… - Automation in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Detecting buried objects from ground penetrating radar (GPR) profiles often requires manual
interaction and plenty of time. This paper presents an automatic scheme for buried objects …

Integrating building information model and augmented reality for drone-based building inspection

D Liu, X Xia, J Chen, S Li - Journal of Computing in Civil …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely accepted for building inspection in
recent years. However, the advantages of UAV inspection are not fully leveraged because of …

An occupancy grid mapping enhanced visual SLAM for real-time locating applications in indoor GPS-denied environments

L Xu, C Feng, VR Kamat, CC Menassa - Automation in Construction, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Current Real-Time Locating Systems (RTLS) typically deployed in indoor built
environments are generally based on wireless technologies, fixed cameras, or Lidar-based …

Dynamic BIM-augmented UAV safety inspection for water diversion project

D Liu, J Chen, D Hu, Z Zhang - Computers in Industry, 2019 - Elsevier
As indispensable infrastructure for supplying industrial and residential water, structural
failure to water diversion projects will result in unmeasurable loss. Safety inspection is …

Underground infrastructure detection and localization using deep learning enabled radargram inversion and vision based mapping

M Wang, D Hu, J Chen, S Li - Automation in Construction, 2023 - Elsevier
Underground pipeline strikes, a pressing problem due to inaccurate subsurface data, are
addressed in this paper with a pipeline detection and localization framework. First, abundant …

Automated detection of cracks in roads using ground penetrating radar

ME Torbaghan, W Li, N Metje, M Burrow… - Journal of applied …, 2020 - Elsevier
A critical assessment criterion for road condition assessment is the amount and severity of
cracking. Cracking causes a loss of structural capacity (ie strength and stiffness) and if …

An improved convolutional neural network system for automatically detecting rebar in GPR data

Z Xiang, A Rashidi, G Ou - … on Computing in Civil Engineering 2019, 2019 - ascelibrary.org
As a mature technology, ground penetration radar (GPR) is now widely employed in
detecting rebar and other embedded elements in concrete structures. Manually recognizing …

Seeing through disaster rubble in 3D with ground-penetrating radar and interactive augmented reality for urban search and rescue

D Hu, L Chen, J Du, J Cai, S Li - Journal of Computing in Civil …, 2022 - ascelibrary.org
First responders often lack information and visual clues regarding interior spaces in disaster
rubble, preventing efficient, effective, and safe search and rescue for victims trapped in …