Learning-based safety lifting monitoring system for cranes on construction sites

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Main Authors: Chen, Hao, Ng, Yu Hin, Chang, Ching-Wei, Liang, Haobo, Wang, Yanke
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Published: 2025
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author Chen, Hao
Ng, Yu Hin
Chang, Ching-Wei
Liang, Haobo
Wang, Yanke
author_facet Chen, Hao
Ng, Yu Hin
Chang, Ching-Wei
Liang, Haobo
Wang, Yanke
contents Lifting on construction sites, as a frequent operation, works still with safety risks, especially for modular integrated construction (MiC) lifting due to its large weight and size, probably leading to accidents, causing damage to the modules, or more critically, posing safety hazards to on-site workers. Aiming to reduce the safety risks in lifting scenarios, we design an automated safe lifting monitoring algorithm pipeline based on learning-based methods, and deploy it on construction sites. This work is potentially to increase the safety and efficiency of MiC lifting process via automation technologies. A dataset is created consisting of 1007 image-point cloud pairs (37 MiC liftings). Advanced object detection models are trained for automated two-dimensional (2D) detection of MiCs and humans. Fusing the 2D detection results with the point cloud information allows accurate determination of the three-dimensional (3D) positions of MiCs and humans. The system is designed to automatically trigger alarms that notify individuals in the MiC lifting danger zone, while providing the crane operator with real-time lifting information and early warnings. The monitoring process minimizes the human intervention and no or less signal men are required on real sites assisted by our system. A quantitative analysis is conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the algorithmic pipeline. The pipeline shows promising results in MiC and human perception with the mean distance error of 1.5640 m and 0.7824 m respectively. Furthermore, the developed system successfully executes safety risk monitoring and alarm functionalities during the MiC lifting process with limited manual work on real construction sites.
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spellingShingle Learning-based safety lifting monitoring system for cranes on construction sites
Chen, Hao
Ng, Yu Hin
Chang, Ching-Wei
Liang, Haobo
Wang, Yanke
Systems and Control
Image and Video Processing
Lifting on construction sites, as a frequent operation, works still with safety risks, especially for modular integrated construction (MiC) lifting due to its large weight and size, probably leading to accidents, causing damage to the modules, or more critically, posing safety hazards to on-site workers. Aiming to reduce the safety risks in lifting scenarios, we design an automated safe lifting monitoring algorithm pipeline based on learning-based methods, and deploy it on construction sites. This work is potentially to increase the safety and efficiency of MiC lifting process via automation technologies. A dataset is created consisting of 1007 image-point cloud pairs (37 MiC liftings). Advanced object detection models are trained for automated two-dimensional (2D) detection of MiCs and humans. Fusing the 2D detection results with the point cloud information allows accurate determination of the three-dimensional (3D) positions of MiCs and humans. The system is designed to automatically trigger alarms that notify individuals in the MiC lifting danger zone, while providing the crane operator with real-time lifting information and early warnings. The monitoring process minimizes the human intervention and no or less signal men are required on real sites assisted by our system. A quantitative analysis is conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the algorithmic pipeline. The pipeline shows promising results in MiC and human perception with the mean distance error of 1.5640 m and 0.7824 m respectively. Furthermore, the developed system successfully executes safety risk monitoring and alarm functionalities during the MiC lifting process with limited manual work on real construction sites.
title Learning-based safety lifting monitoring system for cranes on construction sites
topic Systems and Control
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20475