UAV based Photogrammetry Applications for Project Planning and Control: Case Studies on Earthwork Projects

Aimed to improve productivity and performance of construction projects, the project applied unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to collect the data of the construction site periodically. Images of the site will be captured with cameras carried on the UAV platform. The construction site will be monitored with the images and the 3D information recovered from the captured imageries. The system will be applied to provide quantitative data for project plan optimization and project control automation. A GIS based system will be integrated in order to manage the georeferenced images with location information. Earthwork planning optimization, and automated scheduling method and computer tools will be proposed and validated on case studies in the real world. The proposed optimization methods will be continuously applied with the timely input from the UAV system so as to provide just-in-time decision support for project management and execution in the field.

Faculty Supervisor:

Ming Lu

Student:

Partner:

Ledcor (Edmonton, AB)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

University of Alberta

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