Scholarship@Western – Undergraduate Student Research Internships Conference: Damage Assessment in Aging Structures using Augmented Reality

Structural Health Monitoring, Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Damage Classification, Multiclass Identification, Damage Quantification

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is the assessment of bridges and observation of data regarding these bridges over time to monitor their evolution and detect the presence of any possible damages. However, existing methods to perform structural inspections in bridges are high in cost, time-consuming and risky. Inspectors use expensive equipment to reach a certain area of the bridge to inspect it, and at different heights, this can pose a risk to the inspector’s safety. This study aims to find cheaper, faster, and safer ways to perform structural inspections using augmented reality and artificial intelligence. The developed system uses a machine learning model to detect and classify four different types of damage, the system also provides length, area, and perimeter measurements to further assess the severity of the damage.

Acknowledgements

This project is part of the Undergraduate Summer Research Internship Program (USRI) at Western University.

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Damage Assessment in Aging Structures using Augmented Reality

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is the assessment of bridges and observation of data regarding these bridges over time to monitor their evolution and detect the presence of any possible damages. However, existing methods to perform structural inspections in bridges are high in cost, time-consuming and risky. Inspectors use expensive equipment to reach a certain area of the bridge to inspect it, and at different heights, this can pose a risk to the inspector’s safety. This study aims to find cheaper, faster, and safer ways to perform structural inspections using augmented reality and artificial intelligence. The developed system uses a machine learning model to detect and classify four different types of damage, the system also provides length, area, and perimeter measurements to further assess the severity of the damage.