Design of multidimensional sensor fusion system for road pavement inspection

This paper presents a systematic approach for decision level sensor fusion of road pavement inspection system under FP7 RPB HealTec- “Road Pavements & Bridge Deck Health Monitoring/Early Warning Using Advanced Inspection Technologies”. The paper focuses on the design aspect of the post processing sensor fusion system and outlines methods that can be used to process and fuse sensor data such as GPR, IRT, ACU and HDV for multidimensional assessment on the road pavement quality condition. In addition, the paper illustrates a visualization technique for mapping of detected defects with road surface and a GIS map.