Current Challenges and Advancements of Aerial Thermography for Outdoor Structural Health Monitoring: A Review

IF 4.3 2区综合性期刊 Q1 ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC

IEEE Sensors Journal Pub Date : 2025-04-21 DOI:10.1109/JSEN.2025.3561200

Yue Ma;Zhi Zeng;Zipei Luo;Ning Tao;Lei Deng;Yibin Tian

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Abstract

In the rapid development of outdoor structural health monitoring (SHM), infrared thermal imaging and autonomous aerial vehicles (AAVs) have emerged as transformative tools, significantly enhancing maintenance efficiency in expansive outdoor structures. This review highlights the advancements in AAV-assisted thermography, focusing on its impact on the monitoring capabilities of outdoor engineering structures. It introduces AAV-assisted thermographic methods tailored for outdoor environments, explores current challenges influencing their efficacy, and thoroughly examines their integration with machine learning techniques, demonstrating their applications in identifying structural flaws and deformations. Furthermore, the review emphasizes the transformative potential of 3-D thermographic modeling to localize and characterize defects effectively. It contributes actionable insights to optimize AAV-assisted thermographic practices. The findings underscore the importance of integrating AAVs and thermography to overcome the existing limitations in outdoor SHM inspections, setting the stage for a paradigm shift in large-scale outdoor structural condition assessments.

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航空热成像用于室外结构健康监测的挑战与进展综述

随着室外结构健康监测（SHM）的快速发展，红外热成像和自主飞行器（aav）已经成为变革性的工具，显著提高了膨胀室外结构的维护效率。本文综述了aav辅助热成像技术的进展，重点介绍了其对室外工程结构监测能力的影响。它介绍了为室外环境量身定制的aav辅助热成像方法，探讨了影响其有效性的当前挑战，并彻底检查了它们与机器学习技术的集成，展示了它们在识别结构缺陷和变形方面的应用。此外，综述强调了三维热成像建模在有效定位和表征缺陷方面的变革潜力。它为优化aav辅助热成像实践提供了可操作的见解。研究结果强调了集成aav和热成像技术的重要性，以克服室外SHM检测的现有局限性，为大规模室外结构状态评估的范式转变奠定了基础。

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IEEE Sensors Journal 工程技术-工程：电子与电气

CiteScore

7.70

自引率

14.00%

发文量

2058

审稿时长

5.2 months

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