Monte Carlo based Risk Analysis of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Flights over Construction Job Sites

Hashem Izadi Moud, Alireza Shojaei, Ian Flood, Xun Zhang

2018

Abstract

While Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been used on construction job sites for different purposes for over a decade, the risks and hazards of flying UAVs on construction job sites has not been either quantitatively or qualitatively assessed. Quantifying the risks of flying UAVs over general populations is a common practice in the general UAV industry. This study uses an established model that has been used to quantify the risks of flying UAVs over general population, propagates the bases of the model based on the construction industry needs, tailors some of the input of the model based on the construction industry specifications, and uses the Monte-Carlo Simulation method to quantify the risks of flying UAVs over a real construction job site adopted as a case study. This model is based on mishap rate for UAVs, population density of the area that UAVs fly over and the lethal area of UAVs that could be potentially fatal in the event of a crash. While this paper presents the very first effort in quantifying the risks of flying UAVs over construction sites, there is a need in the construction industry to tailor this model based on the needs of the industry to make the model more accurate.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Moud H., Shojaei A., Flood I. and Zhang X. (2018). Monte Carlo based Risk Analysis of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Flights over Construction Job Sites.In Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH, ISBN 978-989-758-323-0, pages 451-458. DOI: 10.5220/0006868804510458

in Bibtex Style

@conference{simultech18,
author={Hashem Izadi Moud and Alireza Shojaei and Ian Flood and Xun Zhang},
title={Monte Carlo based Risk Analysis of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Flights over Construction Job Sites},
booktitle={Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,},
year={2018},
pages={451-458},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006868804510458},
isbn={978-989-758-323-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,
TI - Monte Carlo based Risk Analysis of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Flights over Construction Job Sites
SN - 978-989-758-323-0
AU - Moud H.
AU - Shojaei A.
AU - Flood I.
AU - Zhang X.
PY - 2018
SP - 451
EP - 458
DO - 10.5220/0006868804510458