Monitoring Bridges with Drones | Discovery Partners Institute

Monitoring Bridges with Drones Goals

Our ultimate goal is a multidisciplinary approach to monitoring bridges by using drones with multiple sensors for a multi-scale, multi-sensing, and multi-depth nondestructive monitoring. Benefits of drone-assisted evaluations are

Enable safe access to areas of the bridge that are challenging for workers using traditional equipment
Reduce the hazard, time and cost required to conduct the inspection
Avoid traffic and service interruptions
Improve the quality of bridge element ratings by allowing multiple inspectors to view the same information

Monitoring Bridges with Drones Team

Danilo Erricolo

derric1@uic.edu

University of Illinois at Chicago: Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Lesley Sneed

lhsneed@uic.edu

University of Illinois at Chicago: Professor, Civil, Materials and Environmental Engineering

Francesco Soldovieri

soldovieri.f@irea.cnr.it

National Research Council of Italy: Research Director, Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment

Raviraj Adve

rsadve@ece.utoronto.ca

University of Toronto: Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ehud Heyman

heyman@tauex.tau.ac.il

Tel Aviv University: Emeritus Professor, Electrical Engineering

Drone technology for high-frequency measurements

Our industry partner Droneasure has been developing the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) technology for high-frequency measurements. Their technology can be used for the measurement of far-fields and near-fields of antennas, mobile network tests, direction finding and locating the sources of interference.