The invention relates to the technical field of
bridge engineering and information, and discloses a steel-concrete combined bridge crack
monitoring system and method based on an unmanned aerial vehicle, and the
system comprises a multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle, a ground multi-base-
station RTK-GPS
system, a stereoscopic vision collection module, a
laser radar scanning module and a
thermal infrared imager. The multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle carries each monitoring module to fly to a to-be-detected area, a ground multi-base-
station RTK-GPS
system generates a
virtual base station through
carrier phase difference, and
centimeter-level positioning of the unmanned aerial vehicle is achieved; the stereoscopic vision acquisition module acquires a high-definition image, the
laser radar scanning module generates
point cloud data, and the stereoscopic vision acquisition module and the
laser radar scanning module are fused to construct a textured three-dimensional model; and the
thermal infrared imager identifies hidden cracks.
Millimeter-level non-contact monitoring of the crack of the
joint surface of the steel web and the concrete is achieved, personnel climbing is not needed, the positioning precision is high, the adaptability is high, the method is suitable for long-term health monitoring of a bridge, and reliable data support is provided for bridge structure
performance prediction.