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Applicability of unmanned aerial system (UAS) for safety inspection on construction sites

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the applicability of UAV for safety inspection on construction sites, focusing on the identification of the requirement that can be inspected and the non-compliances with the safety requirements established.
About: This article is published in Safety Science.The article was published on 2017-10-01. It has received 130 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Construction management & Safety monitoring.
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26 Jul 2020-Minerals
TL;DR: In this article, the mining process is classified into three phases: exploration, exploitation, and reclamation, and a systematic review was performed to summarize the results of 65 articles and outline the research trend for applying UAVs in mining.
Abstract: Over the past decade, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been used in the mining industry for various applications from mineral exploration to mine reclamation. This study aims to review academic papers on the applications of UAVs in mining by classifying the mining process into three phases: exploration, exploitation, and reclamation. Systematic reviews were performed to summarize the results of 65 articles (June 2010 to May 2020) and outline the research trend for applying UAVs in mining. This study found that UAVs are used at mining sites for geological and structural analysis via remote sensing, aerial geophysical survey, topographic surveying, rock slope analysis, working environment analysis, underground surveying, and monitoring of soil, water, ecological restoration, and ground subsidence. This study contributes to the classification of current UAV applications during the mining process as well as the identification of prevalent UAV types, data acquired by sensors, scales of targeted areas, and styles of flying control for the applications of UAVs in mining.

84 citations

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TL;DR: This paper provides more details and offers a thorough investigation concerning UAV communication protocols, networking systems, architectures, and applications as well as highlighting important technical challenges and open research issues requiring further studies and R&D work.

84 citations

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TL;DR: The results indicated that the most important safety activities that can be improved using UASs were monitoring boom vehicles or cranes in the proximity of overhead power lines, monitoring activities in the close proximity of boom vehiclesor cranes, and monitoring unprotected edges or openings.

82 citations

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11 Apr 2018-Sensors
TL;DR: A Mission Definition System and the automated flight process it enables to implement measurement plans for discrete infrastructure inspections using aerial platforms, and specifically multi-rotor drones are described.
Abstract: This paper describes a Mission Definition System and the automated flight process it enables to implement measurement plans for discrete infrastructure inspections using aerial platforms, and specifically multi-rotor drones. The mission definition aims at improving planning efficiency with respect to state-of-the-art waypoint-based techniques, using high-level mission definition primitives and linking them with realistic flight models to simulate the inspection in advance. It also provides flight scripts and measurement plans which can be executed by commercial drones. Its user interfaces facilitate mission definition, pre-flight 3D synthetic mission visualisation and flight evaluation. Results are delivered for a set of representative infrastructure inspection flights, showing the accuracy of the flight prediction tools in actual operations using automated flight control.

77 citations


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  • ...As a particular application, safety inspection on construction sites is addressed in [36], in which a drone is used to provide visual assets to verify the safety checklists in two different projects....

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TL;DR: A four-dimensional BIM/UAV-enabled safety management model based on IDEF0 language that allows safety specialists to identify hazards and develop suitable mitigation strategies and shows a strong relationship between the design and construction phases.
Abstract: Introduction. A variety of approaches exist to achieve better construction safety performance, but only a few consider a combination of building information modeling (BIM) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Method. This article presents a four-dimensional (4D) BIM/UAV-enabled safety management model based on IDEF0 language. In the first step, potential hazards are identified with the help of safety specialists' experiences and BIM software used in the design of the structure. Then, a UAV monitors the location of the potential hazards. The third step involves the integration of the 4D BIM-based model and the information obtained from the UAV. Finally, the combined data are analyzed and interpreted, and site safety staff are notified about measures to be put in place to prevent accidents. Results. This model shows a strong relationship between the design and construction phases by using BIM in the design phase and UAVs in the construction phase. The proposed safety model was evaluated by construction safety specialists in a two-pronged approach. Conclusion. The number of fatal, non-fatal and property damage-causing accidents may be significantly lower when the proposed system was used. Practical application. This model allows safety specialists to identify hazards and develop suitable mitigation strategies.

70 citations

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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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TL;DR: In this paper, a survey was developed and sent to a random sample of the top five hundred US construction companies to determine the correlation between management commitment to safety and the frequency of construction-related injuries and illnesses.

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