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An automated target-oriented scanning system for infrastructure applications
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posted on 2020-12-10, 12:31 authored by Ruodan Lu, Yuening Ma, Liang Guo, Tony ThorpeTony Thorpe, Ioannis BrilakisPoint cloud pre-processing is essential for emerging applications such as digital
twinning but currently requires a lot of manual effort before the resulting data can be
used. Practitioners usually use default scan range settings to take full scans, which
generate huge point cloud datasets containing millions of points. However, only a
fraction of the dataset is used for subsequent twinning processes and the remaining data
is “noise”. Researchers need to perform substantial cropping work to enable the point
cloud can be used for detecting objects of interest. However, the problem of object
detection in the post-processing stage also remains unresolved. This paper describes a
new system TOSS to conduct a target-oriented scanning process. It streamlines the
scan-to-gDT (geometric digital twin) process by automatically identifying the region
of interest and its corresponding scanning path. TOSS consists of a cost-effective 3-
DoF rotational laser scanner, a vision-based object detection algorithm, and a
geometric-camera-model-based scanning control algorithm. Preliminary results on a
real-world bridge indicate that TOSS can produce accurate scans of regions of interest
(average: 95.5% Precision and 89.4% Recall). It is fully scalable and can be adapted to
various infrastructure types, including buildings, bridges, industrial plants, tunnels, and
roads. The algorithms also have great potential to be embedded in a traditional
scanner’s software.
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- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
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Construction Research Congress 2020 : Computer ApplicationsSource
2020 ASCE Construction Research Congress (CRC 20)Publisher
ASCEVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This material may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the American Society of Civil Engineers. This material may be found at https://ascelibrary.org/doi/pdf/10.1061/9780784482865.049.Acceptance date
2019-10-21Publication date
2020-11-09Publisher version
Language
- en
Location
Tempe, Arizona, USAEvent dates
8th March 2020 - 10th March 2020Depositor
Dr Ruodan Lu. Deposit date: 26 March 2020Administrator link
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