Abstract
This paper presents a measuring-position-determination method of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for automatic visual inspection system. In the proposed method, it is assumed that 3D model of the target infrastructure, the specification of measurement and UAV's features are given. Under those assumptions, the measuring positions are calculated considering the accuracy of data. In this paper, the usefulness of the proposed method is examined by a computer simulation assuming visual inspections for several bridges. In the simulation, measuring positions are determined assuming several types of UAVs for each bridge.
