ZEBBRA measurement at a bridge during vehicle crossings with the resulting radar time-series displacement.
ZEBBRA project
Event-based observation and assessment of the state of bridge infrastructure based on radar data combined with intelligent algorithms
Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Duration: 2018 to 2021
Project consortium: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Büro für Strukturmechanik, ci-tec GmbH
The objective of the joint research project ZEBBRA is the development of a non invasive, mobile and innovative measurement and method approach to detect and analyze the condition of bridges during operation combined with an evaluation of the bridges' condition.
The ZEBBRA project is funded within the scope "Forschung für die zivile Sicherheit 2012 bis 2017" in the specific topic civil security and infrastructure. The website www.sifo.de provides an overview of the research program with respect to this topic.
The project consortium consists of two small and medium-sized companies, ci-tec and the Büro für Strukturmechanik, as well as the Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and the Institute of Automation and Applied Informatics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
The ci-tec part within the ZEBBRA project is focused on the technical coupling of the applied sensor systems to the ZEBBRA demonstrator and the development of this demonstrator.