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Title:	Development of a New Airborne Portable Sensing System to Investigate Bridge Response
Authors:	Yanlin Guo and Brandon Perry
University:	Colorado State University
Publication Date:	Sep 2024
Report #:	MPC-24-552
Project #:	MPC-643

Abstract

This study proposes a new remote sensing technique to measure three-component (3C) dynamic displacement of three-dimensional (3D) structures. A sensing system with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform and contact-free sensors (e.g., optical and infrared (IR) cameras) was employed to provide a portable and convenient alternative to conventional approaches that require sensor installation on a structure. The original contributions of this study include (1) integrating both optical and IR cameras with a UAV platform to measure dynamic structural response, and (2) developing new data post-processing algorithms (based on target identification, Direct Linear Transformation, and active stereo vision) to simultaneously extract the 3C displacement of a 3D structure from optical and IR videos, which presented a unique advantage compared to the existing UAV-based displacement measurement techniques that allow the measurements in only one or two directions using optical cameras or laser sensors. The efficacy of the proposed technique was validated through laboratory experiments.

How to Cite

Guo, Yanlin, and Brandon Perry. Development of a New Airborne Portable Sensing System to Investigate Bridge Response, MPC-24-552. North Dakota State University - Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, Fargo: Mountain-Plains Consortium, 2024.