Automatic bridge crack detection device based on quadrotor UAV

Abstract

For the bridge located in deep valley, with high tower and long span structure, the traditional artificial crack detection can not meet the needs of today. In order to solve this problem, a new bridge crack detection equipment is designed based on quadrocopter unmanned aerial vehicle. According to this equipment, the developed system contains: reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle system, acquisition and transmission system, crack positioning system, and graphics operations system. Reconnaissance UAV system is improved based on quadrocoper UAV to meet the requirements of flight power, flight control, flight safety and signal stability. In the integrated transmission system, the designed UAV equipped with Hawkeye 5S motion camera, and 4G communication is used to complete the real-time image transmission; The crack location system uses BDS / GPS dual-mode combined single-point positioning module to realize the accurate location of bridge surface cracks; Graphics operations system, based on C++ and python language, designed a superpotent actual-time video streaming graphics operations method, and used median filter, image grayscale, histogram equalization, threshold segmentation and other methods to process the crack image. The designed bridge crack detection equipment can effectively solve the problem of low crack detection efficiency, and realize the intelligence and automation of crack identification. It has practical engineering application value and promotes the development of bridge crack detection technology.