• A digital information model framework for uas-enabled bridge inspection 

      Achuthan, Kamal; Hay, Nick; Aliyari, Mostafa; Ayele, Yonas Zewdu (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) provide two main functions with regards to bridge inspections: (1) high-quality digital imaging to detect element defects; (2) spatial point cloud data for the reconstruction of 3D asset models. ...
    • Drone-based bridge inspection in harsh operating environment: risks and safeguards 

      Aliyari, Mostafa; Ashrafi, Behrooz; Ayele, Yonas Zewdu (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The inability to effectively and systematically identify and measure the damage in bridges will lead to an acceleration and dangerous deterioration of the health state of these structures. To repair and replace the aging ...
    • Hazards identification and risk assessment for UAV-assisted bridge inspections 

      Aliyari, Mostafa; Ashrafi, Behrooz; Ayele, Yonas Zewdu (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) technology has found its way into several civilian applications in the last 20 years, predominantly due to lower cost and tangible scientific improvements. In its application to structural ...
    • Uav-based bridge inspection via transfer learning 

      Aliyari, Mostafa; Droguett, Enrique Lopez; Ayele, Yonas Zewdu (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10-14)
      As bridge inspection becomes more advanced and more ubiquitous, artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, such as machine and deep learning, could offer suitable solutions to the nation’s problems of overdue bridge inspections. ...