Vistoria cautelar com a utilização de Veículo Aéreo Não Tripulado (VANT)

Abstract

The issue of sustainability is a global concern today. Avoiding the extraction of some natural resources combined with the non-extraction of others is an important issue in complex industrialized societies. It contributes to the implementation of more sustainable ways of life avoiding the environmental collapse of planet Earth by anthropic action in its various stages of development. In order to minimize the extraction of resources, changes in human behavior must occur in the various ways in which it interacts with the Earth. And one of them is directly related to the use of a type of robot in engineering, the UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), popularly known as drone. Specifically regarding this use, there is a branch of civil engineering in which the UAV has a significant potential for use, the one inserted at the building science. This branch is related to assessments and inspections. Within it, there is a common procedure known as precautionary inspection. At first, the use of the Drone vehicle in this type of inspection could replace human work at times, in a context of saving time and natural resources. Hence, the contribution to sustainability. Therefore, the paper presents a case study on a precautionary inspection, in order to try to verify whether the use of UAV would be effective in the inspection procedure related, as well as where and how could be used.