Automated guided vehicles and autonomous mobile robots for recognition and tracking in civil engineering

J Zhang, X Yang, W Wang, J Guan, L Ding… - Automation in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) have been
widely used recently to solve various engineering problems in logistics, manufacturing, and …

A review of GPR application on transport infrastructures: Troubleshooting and best practices

M Solla, V Pérez-Gracia, S Fontul - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The non-destructive testing and diagnosis of transport infrastructures is essential because of
the need to protect these facilities for mobility, and for economic and social development …

End-to-end deep learning model for underground utilities localization using GPR

Y Su, J Wang, D Li, X Wang, L Hu, Y Yao… - Automation in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Underground utilities (UUs) are key infrastructures in urban life operations. The localization
of UUs is vital to governments and residents in terms of asset management, utility planning …

Detection and localization of rebar in concrete by deep learning using ground penetrating radar

H Liu, C Lin, J Cui, L Fan, X **e, BF Spencer - Automation in construction, 2020 - Elsevier
Ground penetrating radar (GPR) has been widely used for detection and localization of
reinforced steel bar (rebar) in concrete in a non-destructive way. However, manual …

Automated rebar recognition and corrosion assessment of concrete bridge decks using ground penetrating radar

N Faris, T Zayed, A Fares, S Abdelkhalek… - Automation in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Reinforcement corrosion is a leading cause of damage in concrete bridge decks, resulting in
cracking and spalling in the concrete cover. Recently, ground penetrating radar (GPR) …

Automatic hyperbola detection and fitting in GPR B-scan image

W Lei, F Hou, J **, Q Tan, M Xu, X Jiang, G Liu… - Automation in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Detecting buried objects from ground penetrating radar (GPR) profiles often requires manual
interaction and plenty of time. This paper presents an automatic scheme for buried objects …

[HTML][HTML] Review of non-destructive civil infrastructure evaluation for bridges: State-of-the-art robotic platforms, sensors and algorithms

H Ahmed, HM La, N Gucunski - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
The non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of civil infrastructure has been an active area of
research in recent decades. The traditional inspection of civil infrastructure mostly relies on …

An algorithm for automatic localization and detection of rebars from GPR data of concrete bridge decks

K Dinh, N Gucunski, TH Duong - Automation in Construction, 2018 - Elsevier
Picking rebars manually in the data from ground penetrating radar (GPR) surveys of
concrete bridge decks is time consuming and labor intensive. This paper presents an …

Improved Mask R-CNN with distance guided intersection over union for GPR signature detection and segmentation

F Hou, W Lei, S Li, J **, M Xu, J Luo - Automation in Construction, 2021 - Elsevier
Ground penetrating radar (GPR) has been used for non-destructive inspection of civil
infrastructure systems such as bridges and pipelines. Manually extracting useful data from a …

Detection of early-stage rebar corrosion using a polarimetric ground penetrating radar system

H Liu, J Zhong, F Ding, X Meng, C Liu, J Cui - Construction and Building …, 2022 - Elsevier
As a non-destructive testing method, ground penetrating radar (GPR) has been applied to
monitor the corrosion of reinforced bar (rebar) in concrete. However, a traditional GPR …