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Table 1 The level of autonomy in UAV-based visual data collection for construction performance monitoring and civil infrastructure condition assessment

From: Visual monitoring of civil infrastructure systems via camera-equipped Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): a review of related works

Autonomy

Sensor

A Priori

Literature

Autonomous

Camera

None

(ARIA (Team 2015; Fernandez Galarreta et al. 2015; Kerle 2999; Qin 2014; Siebert & Teizer 2014; Yamamoto et al. 2014; Zhang & Elaksher 2012; Zollmann et al. 2014))

RGB-D

None

(Michael et al. 2014)

Semi-autonomous

Camera

None

(Dobson et al. 2013; Eschmann 2999; Fiorillo et al. 2012; Gao et al. 2011; Kluckner et al. 2011; Matsuoka et al. 2012; Wefelscheid et al. 2011; Zollmann et al. 2012)

Manual

Camera

Model-driven

(Han et al. 2015; Lin, Han, Fukuchi et al. 2015a; Lin, Han & Golparvar-Fard 2015)

None

(Gheisari et al. 2014; Irizarry et al. 2012; Oskouie et al. 2015; Vetrivel 2999; Wen et al. 2014; Xie et al. 2012; Ye et al. 2014)