Parallel Systems for the Bridge Inspection

• Published in: IEEE journal of radio frequency identification (Online) 2022, Vol.6, p.783-786
• Main Authors: Ma, Hongyao, Wang, Zhixue, Gao, Hang, Shen, Zhen, Zhang, Hong, Hu, Xueliang, Li, Chuanfu, Xiong, Gang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Bridge inspection; Bridges; Classification; Computational modeling; Computer vision; Datasets; Inspection; Intelligent systems; intelligent technologies; Load modeling; Neural networks; Parallel systems; Point cloud compression; Public transportation; Simultaneous localization and mapping; Transportation safety; Unmanned aerial vehicles
• ISSN: 2469-7281; 2469-729X
• DOI: 10.1109/JRFID.2022.3212598

As the number of bridges grows in China, bridge inspection is necessary to ensure public transport safety. With the development of various technologies in recent years, such as unmanned aerial vehicles, computer vision, advanced sensing, artificial intelligence, intelligent technologies in bridge inspection have developed rapidly and are gradually replacing traditional methods. Here we propose the parallel systems for bridge inspection, which introduces the parallel theory into the field of bridge inspection to solve the problems of data shortage and the special scene prediction. Based on the classification of concrete dataset (CCD) and the parallel classification dataset (PCD), ConvNeXt and other neural networks are trained and compared. The crack detection accuracy reached 99.22%. We believe that the framework proposed in this paper can improve the efficiency and accuracy of bridge inspection significantly.