Drone-Based StereoDIC: System Development, Experimental Validation and Infrastructure Application

• Published in: Experimental mechanics Vol. 61; no. 6; pp. 981 - 996
• Main Authors: Kalaitzakis, M., Vitzilaios, N., Rizos, D. C., Sutton, M. A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Control; Data collection; Digital imaging; Drone aircraft; Drone vehicles; Dynamical Systems; Engineering; Image acquisition; Image transmission; Infrastructure; Inspection; Lasers; Nondestructive testing; Optical Devices; Optics; Photonics; Railroad ties; Research Paper; Solid Mechanics; Unmanned aircraft; Vibration; Vision systems; Drone; DroneDIC; Remote structural health monitoring; Digital image correlation

Background Digital Image Correlation (DIC) is widely used for remote and non-destructive structural health evaluation of infrastructure. Current DIC applications are limited to relatively small areas of structures and require the use of stationary stereo vision camera systems that are not easy to tr...