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A Study in South Carolina Found That Advantages of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Deployment for Bridge Inspection Include Reduced Need for Under Bridge Inspection Trucks, Convenient Documentation, and Increased Safety for Inspection Engineers.

METHODOLOGY To evaluate the effectiveness of using a UAS to support a bridge inspection team, two primary experiments were conducted on the same test bridge. The first experiment intended to evaluate…
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Date Posted
03/31/2023

On-Site Time for Bridge Inspection with Automated System Utilizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Estimated to Take Two Hours Compared with Two Weeks for Traditional Human-Based Inspection Techniques.

Methodology Four different flights were used in this study, with two flights manually controlled and two autonomously flown. In the manually-controlled flights, two flying techniques were tested:…
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Date Posted
10/19/2022

Determine Whether Privacy is a Concern and Employ Reasonable Precautions to Avoid Capturing Images of Civilians Before Utilizing Unmanned Aerial Systems to Improve Operations.

Determine whether privacy is a concern when planning flights and what safety precautions are needed when operating near civilians, then implement a liability management strategy. UAS pilots in…
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Date Posted
03/21/2022