Structural inspection by RPAS (Drones): Quality work with preventive guarantee

The use of Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS), better known as drones, has spread with multiple and very diverse applications on last years. It includes, among other matters, the civil engineering structures inspections. From an inspection of a viaduct this article was born precisely. The inspe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Rodríguez Elizalde, Rubén
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Repositorio:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC
OAI Identifier:oai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/151701
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10609/151701
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:inspection
bridge
drones
RPAS
structure
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Sumario:The use of Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS), better known as drones, has spread with multiple and very diverse applications on last years. It includes, among other matters, the civil engineering structures inspections. From an inspection of a viaduct this article was born precisely. The inspection was conducted by the author experimentally, in order to demonstrate that the little aircraft can serve as a quality tool to make this work that is being carried out by qualified personnel and expensive auxiliary means currently. At the end, the author try to demonstrate that we can obtain identical, or even better, quality results, reducing the health and safety risks for the workers who do that work, with time and costs significant savings.