AI无人机取代人工进行桥梁检测，大幅降低维护成本

[来源: CP] [分类提示: NEWS] 标题: AI Drones Take Over Bridge Inspections, Saving Millions The United States is swapping human climbers for AI-powered drones to fix over 600,000 bridges along the Mississippi River, a faster, cheaper, and safer way to maintain crumbling infrastructure. Traditionally, inspecting a massive structure like St. Paul’s Robert Street Bridge is a nightmare. Engineers have to dangle from ropes, snap thousands of photos by hand, and sketch cracks in notebooks while hovering over traffic. It is a slow, expensive process that often requires shutting down lanes for commuters and carries significant safety risks for the workers involved. Traditional bridge inspections typically requires conduct assessments from a bucket lift or dangling from ropes. Collins Engineers decided to try a high-tech approach for the bridge’s latest check-up. Instead of sending people over the side on ropes, they deployed drones to fly the length of the 1,429-foot bridge. These drones captured over 57,000 high-resolution images, which were then processed by Bentley Systems software to create a “digital twin”—a photorealistic 3D map of the bridge stored in the cloud. Artificial Intelligence then scanned this model, automatically finding and measuring every crack and chip before a human ever stepped foot on-site. Collins Engineers used Bentley’s iTwin Capture platform and AI to identify cracking in the bridge structure. The results of using AI are not just technical; they are financial. By doing the “discovery