Localization of Cracks in Concrete Structures Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Author:

Woo Hyun-JungORCID,Seo Dong-Min,Kim Min-SeokORCID,Park Min-San,Hong Won-Hwa,Baek Seung-Chan

Abstract

Active research on crack detection technology for structures based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has attracted considerable attention. Most of the existing research on localization of cracks using UAVs mounted the Global Positioning System (GPS)/Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) on the UAVs to obtain location information. When such absolute position information is used, several studies confirmed that positioning errors of the UAVs were reflected and were in the order of a few meters. To address these limitations, in this study, without using the absolute position information, localization of cracks was defined using relative position between objects in UAV-captured images to significantly reduce the error level. Through aerial photography, a total of 97 images were acquired. Using the point cloud technique, image stitching, and homography matrix algorithm, 5 cracks and 3 reference objects were defined. Importantly, the comparative analysis of estimated relative position values and ground truth values through field measurement revealed that errors in the range 24–84 mm and 8–48 mm were obtained on the x- and y-directions, respectively. Also, RMSE errors of 37.95–91.24 mm were confirmed. In the future, the proposed methodology can be utilized for supplementing and improving the conventional methods for visual inspection of infrastructures and facilities.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry

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