A SCHEMA FOR IMPROVING CONSTRUCTION SAFETY WITH UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41
Author(s):  
Lesiba George Mollo ◽  
Fidelis Emuze ◽  
John Smallwood
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
South African ◽  
Construction Safety ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Site Management ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Prevention Methods ◽  
A Site

This article aims to outline how to deploy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for on sites use in South African construction. The use of UAVs is gaining traction in the construction industry, where cyber-physical systems are promoting digital-to physical transformation. Among others, UAVs help assures the safety of people in construction. For instance, they are controlled remotely while moving faster than humans into inaccessible, hard-to-reach, and unsafe areas of job sites. They can be equipped with various types of sensors to transfer valuable data to safety managers and assist with onsite safety monitoring. Based on realised gains and the need to motivate its use, this article uses presents a schema that could help managers deploy UAVs on construction sites for safety performance purposes. The literature-based report utilised the keywords unmanned aerial vehicles and safety in construction to search the relevant database. The findings reveal that the critical hazards on construction sites can be identified using UAVs to allow proactive execution of accident prevention methods. Given that the captured visual images and video clips provide site management with a bird's eye view of a site, corrective measures can be implemented through 'walkabout' and instant instructions. The virtual images and video clips also help to identify hazards and risks that may cause accidents on construction sites. There is significant scope for using UAVs to improve construction safety when appropriate guidelines are implemented.

Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Conduct Site Inspections of Erosion and Sediment Control Practices and Track Project Progression

2015 ◽  
Vol 2528 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Perez ◽  
Wesley C. Zech ◽  
Wesley N. Donald
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Sediment Control ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Inspection Process ◽  
State And Local ◽  
A Site

Construction activities increase the erosion potential of a site through earth-disturbing processes of vegetative grubbing, topsoil stripping, and grading. Receiving waters become susceptible and vulnerable to the process of sedimentation, which degrades the overall water quality. Federal, state, and local regulations require the use of erosion and sediment controls to help manage stormwater discharge from construction sites. Regulations further require regular inspections, monitoring, and maintenance of employed erosion and sediment control practices. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are an emerging remote sensing tool capable of acquiring high resolution spatial and sensing data. Remote sensing with UAVs has the potential to provide high-quality aerial imagery and data that can assist in site inspections of erosion and sediment control practices and monitoring project progression. UAVs are economical and flexible in acquiring aerial data and can be preprogrammed with flight paths to capture data over construction sites objectively. UAV-based remote sensing enables user-controlled image acquisition and bridges the gap in scale and resolution between ground observations and imagery acquired from conventional manned aircraft and satellites. This research describes the application of UAV technologies for construction site inspections of erosion and sediment control practices and tracking project progression. A case study was performed on an active residential construction site with a commercially available UAV to showcase its application and capabilities of enhancing the site inspection process and construction monitoring.

A proposed reference framework for unmanned aerial vehicle and system airworthiness requirements

2007 ◽  
Vol 111 (1120) ◽  
pp. 345-358
Author(s):  
A. Maneschijn ◽  
T. Jones ◽  
T. W. von Backström ◽  
L. A. Ingham
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
South African ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Launch Vehicles ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Reusable Launch Vehicles ◽  
Reference Framework ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract Various programmes are underway internationally to establish legislative instruments for regulating civil and military unmanned aerial vehicles and systems. An analysis of a selection of these programmes revealed that the approaches used for airworthiness regulation are not harmonised and are usually limited to specific unmanned aerial vehicle types, indicating the need for a generic framework for airworthiness requirements. A functional Reference Framework for unmanned aerial vehicle and system airworthiness requirements was developed using Annex 8 of the Chicago Convention as a reference basis, supplemented with airworthiness procedures and functional requirements derived from manned aircraft regulations, unmanned aerial vehicle and system airworthiness material, and flightworthiness guidelines for reusable launch vehicles. Various airworthiness elements were identified for which further research is required to develop appropriate airworthiness requirements. This paper summarises the development of the framework and proposes the Reference Framework as a functional basis for generating comprehensive South African civil and military airworthiness requirements for unmanned aerial vehicles and systems.

KONSTRUKSIEVEILIGHEID SAKBOEKIE VIR SUID-AFRIKA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emuze Fidelis
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
South African ◽  
Construction Safety ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Health Safety ◽  
Laws And Regulations

Construction is one of the oldest activities known to mankind, yet it is an industry where the health, safety and wellbeing of people are often at risk. While South African construction safety laws and regulations are up-to-date, the accidents, injuries and fatalities at construction sites remain a challenge.

scholarly journals Internet of Things (IoT)-Enabled Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for the Inspection of Construction Sites: A Vision and Future Directions

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Ambar Israr ◽  
Ghulam E. Mustafa Abro ◽  
M. Sadiq Ali Khan ◽  
Muhammad Farhan ◽  
Saif ul Azrin Bin Mohd Zulkifli
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Unmanned Vehicles ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
High Standards

Today people are witnessing the rapid evolvement in every area. This is because of the emerging trends in communication technology and autonomous unmanned vehicles. These trends have led us towards the high standards of health, energy, transportation, monitoring, and surveillance of huge domestic and industrial projects. Thus, this review paper presents the integration of the latest trend in communication technology, i.e., Internet of things (IoT) with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This manuscript not only reviews the use of IoT-enabled unmanned aerial vehicles for inspecting the several construction sites but also emphasizes the utilization of such IoT-enabled autonomous aerial vehicles for ensuring the health and safety measures at the site. It discusses the major limitations and shortcomings of state-of-the-art techniques for the same purpose, i.e., optimization issues in path planning, lightweight artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision algorithms, coordination in communication using IoT, and scalability of IoT network. Thus, this paper shall help the reader to explore different open research problems in-depth.

POCKETBOOK: EA POLOKEHO EA KAHO BAKENG: SA AFRIKA BOROA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emuze Fidelis ◽  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
South African ◽  
Construction Safety ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Health Safety ◽  
Laws And Regulations

Construction is one of the oldest activities known to mankind, yet it is an industry where the health, safety and wellbeing of people are often at risk. While South African construction safety laws and regulations are up-to-date, the accidents, injuries and fatalities at construction sites remain a challenge.

scholarly journals Digital transformation of management of industrial enterprises: application of unmanned aerial vehicles

2018 ◽  
pp. 76-81
Author(s):  
I. M. Zaychenko ◽  
A. M. Smirnova ◽  
A. D. Borremans
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Enterprise Management ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Application Range ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Literary Sources

The article substantiates the need for the transition of industrial enterprises to a digital business management basis. The analysis of literary sources on the problems of digital transformation of industrial enterprises, which showed the relevance of research in the field of digitalization of industrial enterprise management systems and allowed to formulate the main technological trends of doing business in the framework of Industry 4.0. As a result of the analysis, it was established that one of the technological trends in industry is the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Using the construction industry as an example, the possibilities of using unmanned aerial vehicles, which have become a highly efficient IT technology, whose application range is wide enough: from monitoring the current situation and providing security at the facility to helping to carry out the most complex geodetic works on hard-to-reach facilities, are described. The work resulted in the formulation of the technological advantages of the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in industry, namely, the construction and implementation of an information model of an industrial facility (BIM), orthomosaic, and the creation of automated construction sites. Along with the advantages, the main difficulties of introducing robotic technologies in the industry have been identified.

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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