Development of a Remote Collaborative Visual Inspection System for Road Condition Assessment

Abstract:

This paper describes a Remote Collaborative Visual Inspection System for integrated management by linking digital movie captured by a running vehicle and online road drawings. The newly developed road condition assessment system consists of commercially available on-board high-resolution video cameras during the visual inspection of road pavements and road appurtenances and a Web connection system. The system enables users to select a road section in a road register on an on-screen map and visually observe not only pavements but also road facilities, slopes, the state of vegetation, and road-occupying structures. The system, therefore, can be expected to help reduce visual detection failures compared with conventional visual observation from moving vehicles and make highly objective evaluation possible through observation by two or more persons. By using image data, the system also provides basic data that can be used for not only maintenance but also road planning.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 569-570)
• Pages: 135-142
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.569-570.135
• Online since: July 2013
• Authors: Ayaho Miyamoto
• Keywords: Condition Assessment, Digital Movie, Road Infrastructure, Visual Inspection System

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