Recent Developments on Inspection Procedures for Infrastructure Using UAVs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Figuli ◽  
Vincenzo Gattulli ◽  
Katarina Hoterova ◽  
Erika Ottaviano
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Infrastructure Networks ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Reliable Monitoring ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Specialized Equipment ◽  
Trained Staff

Recently, collapsed bridges, belonging to infrastructure networks, evidence the needs of reliable monitoring and inspection routines. Inspections can be a challenge operation in sites difficult to access; specially trained staff like industrial climbers perform the inspection routine, eventually involving large under-bridge units, elevating platforms, or other specialized equipment. In addition, since the inspections are performed manually, the outcomes mainly rely on inspector confidence and experience. This paper discuss the possibility of using unmanned aerial vehicles for monitoring and inspection of transport infrastructure.

Turkish UAV capabilities as a new competitor in the market

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sinem Kahvecioglu ◽  
Hakan Oktal
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status ◽  
Recent Developments

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the main Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) projects proceeded by Turkey and to reveal the future targets and the status of Turkey among the countries securing enhanced UAV experience. Design/methodology/approach – The historical development and the future of the UAV systems are analyzed by using the roadmaps, and reports about the UAV market. Findings – It is found that the development and the production of indigineous UAV systems/subsystems will reduce the costs, and enable Turkey to be independent with respect to when, where, and how to use its own UAV systems. Originality/value – This study provides historical context for recent developments in UAV sector in Turkey and presents some proposals for the future of the market.

scholarly journals Recent Developments in Path Planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Majeed ◽  
Seong Oun Hwang
Keyword(s):  
Path Planning ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Sense And Avoid ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Subject

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have demonstrated their effectiveness in performing diverse missions at significantly lower costs compared to the human beings. UAVs have the capabilities to reach and execute mission in those areas that are very difficult for humans to even reach such as forest, deserts, and mines. Integration of the latest technologies including reactive controls, sense and avoid, and onboard computations have strengthened their dominance further in various practical missions. Besides the innovative applications, the use of UAVs imposes several challenges, and one of those challenges is computing a low-cost path for aerial mission by avoiding obstacles as well as satisfying certain performance objectives (a.k.a path planning (PP)). To this end, this chapter provides a concise overview of various aspects concerning to PP including basics introduction of the subject matter, categorization of the PP approaches and problems, taxonomy of the essential components of the PP, performance objectives of the PP approaches, recent algorithms that have been proposed for PP in known and unknown environments, and future prospects of research in this area considering the emerging technologies. With this chapter, we aim to provide sufficient knowledge about one of the essential components of robotics technology (i.e., navigation) for researchers.

scholarly journals Aspects of Equipping Transport Facilities with Systems for Controlling Routes of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 84-96
Author(s):  
S. V. Shvetsova
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Technical Equipment ◽  
Ground Vehicles ◽  
Routing Problem ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis

Currently, the problem of ensuring safety of flights of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over the territory of transport infrastructure facilities (TIF), primarily airports, remains topical.In one of the previous works, the author together with the co-author proposed a method for increasing safety of movement of unmanned aerial vehicles and the system for controlling the routes of unmanned aerial vehicles (hereinafter – route control system, RCS) that implements it, which makes it possible to improve safety and security of UAV traffic at transport infrastructure facilities by limiting UAV traffic area strictly to a dedicated air corridor (DAC). The development of this system creates the prerequisites for removing the existing restrictions on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles at transport infrastructure facilities.For practical implementation of the proposed system, it is relevant to develop a method of placing RCS at transport infrastructure facilities. This condition can be justified by the fact that RCS, as a rule, will be located under conditions of dense infrastructural development, including dangerous technical elements of technical equipment, a collision of a UAV with which can lead to an emergency situation (ES); besides, the movement of air/ground vehicles will be carried out in the immediate vicinity of RCS along transport routes/corridors, and employees, passengers and visitors of TIF will move along the pedestrian paths.The objective of this study – to develop a methodology for placing systems controlling routes of unmanned aerial vehicles at transport infrastructure facilities.The study conducted with well-known scientific methods, including the basic routing problem posed by Dantzig and Ramser, modelling, analysis, and synthesis, made it possible to develop a method for placing RCS for unmanned aerial vehicles at transport infrastructure facilities. The practical application of the proposed methodology makes it possible to build routes for movement of UAV at TIF, to form a network of dedicated air corridors for UAV at TIF operated in relationship with the system, determine the optimal location of the RCS elements at TIF.

scholarly journals Application of UAVs for assessment of bridge infrastructure

2021 ◽  
Vol 73 (11) ◽  
pp. 1095-1106
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Autonomous Systems ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Life Estimation ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Bridge Inspections ◽  
Service Life Estimation ◽  
Structural Inspection

The shortcomings of classical methods for inspection of transport infrastructure objects have led to the development of more efficient, more reliable, faster and cheaper procedures for condition assessment and load-bearing capacity and service life estimation of objects. In this context, different autonomous systems developed in the last decade have the most notable role and their development is continuously speeding up. This paper provides a state of the art review of the unmanned aerial vehicles application for structural inspection with a focus on bridges. The paper comprises the following: a review of the current regulations prescribing the types and frequency of inspections; a review of the current classical inspection methods with their advantages and disadvantages; analysis of advantages and disadvantages in application of unmanned aerial vehicles for bridge inspections and a review of the equipment commonly used in their development.

scholarly journals Enhanced Security of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Operations at Transport Infrastructure Facilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 174-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. V. Shvetsova ◽  
A. V. Shvetsov
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
3D Mapping ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Auxiliary Power ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), also known as drones, are gaining more and more practical application in modern society, particularly as the tools of implementation of the concepts of «smart city», «smart health care», «smart industries», Internet of Things, 3D mapping, digital transport. But currently it is impossible to use of UAV at certain objects, comprising objects of transport infrastructure (OTI), primarily, airports, because of existing restrictions due to security threats arising during the UAV flight.The authors of the present work have set a goal to offer a solution that allows to start operating UAV at transport infrastructure facilities that are currently prohibited for UAV flights. To achieve the objective of the work, using analysis and synthesis, comparison and generalization, factors and conditions for safe use of UAV at OTI have been formulated, a method for increasing security of UAV flight has been developed, followed by the suggestion on the UAV route control system.The proposed system makes it possible to safely use UAVs at OTI by restraining their flight area strictly to the designated corridor, which eliminates a threat of a collision of UAV with other vehicles operated at OTI, dangerous elements of OTI, as well as with people at the object.The system does not need electric power feeding, which makes it possible to implement the system without creating an auxiliary power supply infrastructure.The practical application of the proposed system and, as a consequence, implementation of a greater number of opportunities for the use of UAV, are capable to generate fundamentally new technological processes and structures at transport facilities, which is one of the directions for creating the next generation transport infrastructure based on IoT and artificial intelligence.

scholarly journals Towards Fully Autonomous UAVs: A Survey

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (18) ◽  
pp. 6223
Author(s):  
Taha Elmokadem ◽  
Andrey V. Savkin
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Autonomous Navigation ◽  
Great Part ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
System A ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Aerial Vehicle

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have undergone rapid developments in recent decades. This has made them very popular for various military and civilian applications allowing us to reach places that were previously hard to reach in addition to saving time and lives. A highly desirable direction when developing unmanned aerial vehicles is towards achieving fully autonomous missions and performing their dedicated tasks with minimum human interaction. Thus, this paper provides a survey of some of the recent developments in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles related to safe autonomous navigation, which is a very critical component in the whole system. A great part of this paper focus on advanced methods capable of producing three-dimensional avoidance maneuvers and safe trajectories. Research challenges related to unmanned aerial vehicle development are also highlighted.

Development of thickened semi-synthetic engine oil M-5z / 20 AERO for four-stroke gasoline engines aircraft piston of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

2020 ◽  
Vol 06 ◽  
pp. 44-47
Author(s):  
A.A. Moykin ◽  
◽  
A.S. Medzhibovsky ◽  
S.A. Kriushin ◽  
M.V. Seleznev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Engine Oil ◽  
Motor Oil ◽  
Gasoline Engines ◽  
State Research Institute ◽  
Technical Requirements ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
State Research ◽  
Industrial Batch ◽  
The Russian Federation

Nowadays, the creation of remotely-piloted aerial vehicles for various purposes is regarded as one of the most relevant and promising trends of aircraft development. FAU "25 State Research Institute of Chemmotology of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation" have studied the operation features of aircraft piston engines and developed technical requirements for motor oil for piston four-stroke UAV engines, as well as a new engine oil M-5z/20 AERO in cooperation with NPP KVALITET, LLC. Based on the complex of qualification tests, the stated operational properties of the experimental-industrial batch of M-5z/20 AERO oil are generally confirmed.

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