Railway infrastructure monitoring by drones

• In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the adoption of drones for monitoring a variety of infrastructures. Infrastructure monitoring systems are widely adopted to detect faults before they can lead to severe failures. They can be found in a number of civil structures, including bridges and viaducts, and also in many other applications of smart-maintenance, prognostics, health and security monitoring. This paper explores the usage of drones in railways for early warning, situation assessment and decision support applications. It leverages already available technological and research achievements for drone-based surveillance. The aim of the study is to preliminarily evaluate drone capabilities in a railway monitoring framework including structural faults and security threat detection as well as investigation on the consequences of natural hazards and intentional attacks. © 2016 IEEE.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Datorsystem (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Computer Systems (hsv//eng)

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diagnostics

maintenance

mass-transit

physical security

Situation assessment

structural health

Bridges

Decision support systems

Drones

Electric railroads

Electric utilities

Fault detection

Fighter aircraft

Plasma diagnostics

Propulsion

Railroads

Roads and streets

Ship propulsion

Ships

Structural health monitoring

Transportation

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)

Decision support applications

Infrastructure monitoring

Mass transit

Railway infrastructure

Research achievements

Railroad transportation

Computer Science

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