UAV data acquisition method for transportation tunnel inspection

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dc.contributor.authorZhang, Ranen
dc.contributor.authorLi, Zilien
dc.contributor.funderChina Scholarship Council
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-10T09:35:00Z
dc.date.available2024-04-06T18:41:28Zen
dc.date.available2024-04-10T09:35:00Z
dc.date.issued2023en
dc.date.updated2024-04-06T17:41:30Zen
dc.description.abstractIn a large-scale underground transportation network, miles of tunnel linings require regular inspection and assessment. In civil / geotechnical industry, common routine tunnel maintenance still highly relies on labour-intensive visual inspection, manual data acquisition and subjective assessment, which leads to significant cost for a large-scale tunnel network over many miles. In this paper, the tunnel surface texture is acquired using a commercial DJI Mavic2 UAV customized by DJI MSDK automation. Due to limited GPS signal in an underground tunnel, optical flow method is used for localization. In railroad tunnels without a priori maps, the adaptive flight procedure allows the UAV to determine the tunnel axial direction and adjust the UAV orientation and position relative to the tunnel in real time. Compared to manual acquisition and manual control, the UAV automatic data acquisition procedure allow a larger inspection scope, it has higher stability and greater efficiency at a lower cost, and can create a 3D visual model of the entire tunnel in the simple geometry of railway tunnels. Compared to more sophisticated programs, the light-weight platform can be easily compiled on any DJI Mavic 2 model with low computation power and adapt to similar underground environments without the need of pretrained datasets. In future studies, the obtained tunnel images can be used to train convolution neural networks (CNN) for automatic cracks & leakage detection and tunnel condition assessment.
dc.description.statusPeer reviewed
dc.description.versionAccepted Version
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dc.identifier.articleid88
dc.identifier.citationZhang, R. and Li, Z. (2023) 'UAV data acquisition method for transportation tunnel inspection', Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Machine Learning and Big Data in Geoscience, Cork, Ireland, 29 August - 1 September. Extended Abstract 88, pp. 212-214.
dc.identifier.endpage214
dc.identifier.startpage212
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/15785
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.ispartofFourth International Symposium on Machine Learning and Big Data in Geoscience, Cork, Ireland, 29 August - 1 September 2023
dc.rights© 2023, the Authors.
dc.subjectStructural health monitoring
dc.subjectImage acquisition
dc.subjectUAV
dc.subjectPoint clouds
dc.titleUAV data acquisition method for transportation tunnel inspectionen
dc.typeConference item
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