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A review of rotorcraft Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) developments and applications in civil engineering
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An overview of the state of UAV developments and their possible applications in civil engineering is given and the latest developments in technologies related to UAVs are reviewed, such as control theories, navigation methods, and image processing.Abstract:
Civil engineers always face the challenge of uncertainty in planning, building, and maintaining infrastructure. These works rely heavily on a variety of surveying and monitoring techniques. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are an effective approach to obtain information from an additional view, and potentially bring significant benefits to civil engineering. This paper gives an overview of the state of UAV developments and their possible applications in civil engineering. The paper begins with an introduction to
UAV hardware, software, and control methodologies. It also reviews the latest developments in technologies
related to UAVs, such as control theories, navigation methods, and image processing. Finally, the paper
concludes with a summary of the potential applications of UAV to seismic risk assessment, transportation,
disaster response, construction management, surveying and mapping, and flood monitoring and assessment.read more
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Survey on Civil Applications and Key Research Challenges
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TL;DR: The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is growing rapidly across many civil application domains, including real-time monitoring, providing wireless coverage, remote sensing, search and rescue, delivery of goods, security and surveillance, precision agriculture, and civil infrastructure inspection.
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Visual monitoring of civil infrastructure systems via camera-equipped Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): a review of related works
TL;DR: The most relevant works from Civil Engineering, Computer Vision, and Robotics communities are presented and compared in terms of their potential to lead to automatic construction monitoring and civil infrastructure condition assessment.
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Assessment of photogrammetric mapping accuracy based on variation ground control points number using unmanned aerial vehicle
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Applications of multirotor drone technologies in construction management
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