Generating bridge geometric digital twins from point clouds
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Lu, Ruodan
Brilakis, Ioannis https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1829-2083
Abstract
The automation of digital twinning for existing bridges from point clouds remains unresolved. Previous research yielded methods that can generate surface primitives combined with rule-based classification to create labelled cuboids and cylinders. While these methods work well in synthetic datasets or simplified cases, they encounter huge challenges when dealing with real-world point clouds. The proposed framework employs bridge engineering knowledge that mimics the intelligence of human modellers to detect and model reinforced concrete bridge objects in imperfect point clouds. Experiments on ten bridge point clouds indicate the framework can achieve high and reliable performance of geometric digital twin generation of existing bridges.
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Proceedings of the 2019 European Conference on Computing in Construction
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2019 European Conference on Computing in Construction
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2684-1150
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University College Dublin
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European Commission FP7 Collaborative projects (CP) (31109806)
This research is funded by EPSRC, EU Infravation SeeBridge project under Grant No. 31109806.0007 and Trimble Research Fund