Bridge Health Monitoring Systems Using Drones and AI

Abstract

Bridges have proven to be a remarkably effective civil engineering marvel in the past years. They, like everything else, have a life span as well. Once they are constructed and put into service, their deterioration commences. It is crucial to inspect bridges periodically to assess their structural strength and serviceability to ensure the safety of the users. To reduce the efforts, we will be experimenting with photogrammetry, drones and software that use AI to translate pictures into 3D models on a computer to be analyzed. The result will be to evaluate the capabilities and effectiveness of this model as bridge inspection tools to reduce the risk to life and economize the monitoring tasks so that it can be done more regularly and easily.