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Innovation in the skies: New approach to unmanned aerial vehicle-driven engineering inspections . In a study published in Engineering, a collaborative team of researchers from Shanghai University and international experts have unveiled a cutting-edge approach to optimizing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) inspection routes and schedules for engineering projects. #TechTrends #TechInnovationsDaily #DigitalFrontiers #FutureTechInsights

🚁🛣️ Technical Note Spotlight 🛣️🚁 This week's highlight is a Surveying Engineering case study by Siyuan Chen, Debra F. Laefer, Xiangding Zeng, Linh Truong-Hong, and Prof. Eleni Mangina. Their paper, "Volumetric Pothole Detection from UAV-Based Imagery," presents an innovative approach to road maintenance using advanced aerial imaging and algorithmic analysis. The study aims to revolutionize how we monitor and maintain our road networks. Using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and a novel algorithm, the researchers have created a system that can automatically detect and classify potholes with high precision. This method enhances the efficiency and safety of road inspections and promises to significantly reduce the costs and labor associated with traditional manual inspections. 🔗 Learn more about this research here:  https://lnkd.in/euv_cNH7 📖 Read the full paper in the Journal of Surveying Engineering:  https://lnkd.in/ebnCxdJv Sergio Baselga, UESI - Utility Engineering and Surveying Institute #CivilEngineering #Infrastructure #UAV #PotholeDetection #RoadSafety #SurveyingEngineering #ASCE

Take a look at this new case study from #NYUTandon Full Professor of Civil & Urban Engineering and NYU Center for Urban Science + Progress Debra F. Laefer — which proposes a low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based alternative using imagery for automatic road pavement inspection focusing on pothole detection and classification. #NYUTandonMade

"📝 Urban Manhole Inspection with Quadcopter 📊💡 "Revolutionizing Urban Infrastructure Inspection" 🚀 Innovative Technology: Engineers have successfully developed a quadcopter-based digital imaging system for urban manhole inspection, showcasing the power of technology in improving infrastructure management. 🏙️ Urban Services Enhancement: This quadcopter drone solution is a game-changer for urban services contractors, ensuring safer and more efficient inspections of manholes and related infrastructure. 👾 Engineering Marvel: The quadcopter, also known as an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), is a flying robot equipped with firmware, illustrating the remarkable advancements in engineering. 🏢 High-Rise Inspections: Wall-climbing robots and manual inspections for high-rise buildings can be complemented by UAV technology, improving the evaluation of building facades, windows, and external pipes. 🌐 Infrastructure Condition Assessment: UAVs offer remote imaging capabilities, aiding in the assessment of infrastructure conditions, making it a valuable tool for urban development and maintenance. 🌟 Social Responsibility: The development of such technological innovations underscores the importance of considering social desirability and responsibility when advancing urban technologies. This innovation in urban manhole inspection with quadcopters not only enhances safety but also contributes to more efficient urban services, highlighting the potential of technology in transforming urban infrastructure management.🌆🔍 🌟 Track the Trend: Stay ahead of the curve and explore the possibilities, follow me on Linkedin.com/in/psmahesh ⛷❄🏂🌄 "Credits: 🌟 All rights and credits for the content presented are reserved for their respective owners. 📚 For attribution or content removal requests, please contact me. 📩 Only used for Academic Learning/Sharing good work purpose, giving due credit to respective owner 📚 Thank you, and God bless. 🙏"

🚁🌐🔍 Butterfly effect in action! 🦋 Researchers unveil a groundbreaking UAV path-planning algorithm inspired by butterfly behavior, optimizing navigation in 3D spaces. This tech promises enhanced efficiency and safety for UAV applications in rescue, surveillance, and agriculture. https://lnkd.in/g_B4NtVJ #UAV #Innovation #AI #Technology #Navigation #ButterflyAlgorithm #Robotics #Engineering #Optimization #FutureTech Nature Portfolio

I love the technology and partnership focus of Hopper with its ability to operate in swarms, covering large areas and maneuvering to overcome challenges of ocean currents, waves, or winds. Swarms enhance surveillance capabilities for signals monitoring, tsunami warnings, and marine-life biological research. In my continuing dialog here on the importance and advantages of drone partnering , this is a partnership between the Office of the Navy and Mitre.org (innovators in radar technology, cyber, GPS, cancer research, and aviation collision-avoidance systems plus disciplines that include vehicle autonomy, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology). I am Interested to hear if you know of other partnerships like this? "In a recent MITRE article, the organization introduced its groundbreaking Hopper Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV), a solar-powered drone prototype developed in collaboration with the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The Hopper, engineered for maritime environments, showcases the capability to autonomously navigate vast ocean expanses, presenting potential applications in various missions, including search and rescue, monitoring illicit activities like illegal fishing, and detecting meteorological events." "The ONR tasked MITRE with creating a cost-effective, intelligent, and autonomous system capable of seamlessly operating across dynamic ocean environments. The result was the Hopper UAV, a product of less than 24 months of design and fabrication by MITRE engineers." "Lee Mastroianni, program officer for advanced autonomous systems at ONR, commended the MITRE team, stating, “It’s been inspiring to see Hopper rapidly develop from an idea to flight-capable hardware. The MITRE team provided a wealth of insight and innovation in support of our naval objectives.” "The Hopper’s design and development involved the use of computer-aided design (CAD) and advanced simulation software, enabling rapid iteration and the utilization of low-cost manufacturing techniques such as 3D printing. The UAV incorporates small commercial solar cells on its wings, allowing it to regenerate power during flight and at rest." #dronetechnology #droneservices #droneswarms #militarydrones https://lnkd.in/gfZQgGHV

UAV’s In Engineering. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) provide opportunities to easily collect site data. They can ➡️ ✈️ Record the whole site for design reference. ✈️ Produce photogrammetry for design visualisation. ✈️ Assist with Road Safety Audits. ✈️ Generate initial survey models. ✈️ Assist with site inspections. A valuable tool to use in any engineering project to obtain the information needed. Bridge Knowledge holds a Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) and Remotely Operated Aircraft Operator's Certificate (ReOC) for the use of UAV’s. We capture the data to use in conceptual design providing an accurate record of the site and initial survey. ➡️ Road and bridge design. ➡️ Bridge Inspections. ➡️ Road Safety Audits. ➡️ Concept Surveys. If you’re needing a UAV… Get in touch ➡️ send us a message. 📧 #getintouch #letstalk #business #engineers #buildinginfrastructure #bridgedesign #BridgeKnowledge #weloveengineering #drones #UnmannedAerialVehicle #supportengineers #followus #engineeringforgenerations #BK #getintouch #BridgeKnowledge #BusinessSuccess #PremiumEngineering https://lnkd.in/g9xAnTrw

Viewing a project from the air can help ensure you don’t miss identifying important details or hazards that aren’t completely obvious from ground level. Check out this new blog from our Unmanned Aerial Systems Program Director Ryan Holmes to learn how UAV/drones reality capture can help streamline your construction workflows today. --> https://lnkd.in/gt7Cim8J #multivista #realitycapture #UAV #constructiondrones

Paper titled "Optimizing Connectivity in OIRS-assisted UAV Indoor Optical Networks: Efficient Admission Control and Mirror-element Assignment," by Priyanka Singh, Haythem B Salameh, Vivek Ashok Bohara, Anand Srivastava, and Moussa Ayyash is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (IEEE TNSE), Jan 2024. Abstract—Optical wireless communication (OWC) stands out as a potential enabling technology poised to drive the rapid deployment of sixth-generation (6G)-based indoor wireless networks. However, one of the major limitations of utilizing laser-based OWC technology in indoor environments is the non-availability of line-of-sight (LoS) connectivity between the communicating devices due to blockages. To tackle the problem of LoS non-availability, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and optical intelligent reflecting surfaces (OIRS) are exhibited as potential solutions. This paper proposes the integration of laser-based OWC technology with an OIRS-assisted UAV to support the quality of service (QoS) requirements for 6G-based indoor wireless networks. Specifically, we develop a joint user selection and mirror element assignment problem to maximize the number of users served subject to QoS and OWC-related design constraints. This joint optimization problem was an NP-hard binary non-linear problem, which can be optimally solved in polynomial time using sequential-fixing linear programming. To realize our optimization in a distributed manner, we propose a batch-based user-selection and mirror-element assignment (BMEA) scheme that performs simultaneous mirror-element assignment decisions for several contending users. The obtained results show that the proposed scheme significantly outperforms existing reference schemes in terms of spectrum efficiency, sum rate, number of served users, and fairness. Congratulations to the team!!

Aurora has been demonstrating its adaptive control architecture on the waters of the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts. The team is developing and testing machine learning-based introspection technologies that enable uncrewed vehicles, in this case surface vessels, to adapt their control laws as they encounter conditions not predicted at the time of vehicle design. The latest tests simulated relative vessel-to-vessel station keeping for an underway replenishment (UNREP) scenario and automated passage through the Suez Canal. In each scenario, an autonomously controlled, unmanned surface vessel (USV), employed adaptive control to overcome a variety of disturbances while completing the mission.