Low False Alarm Rate Model for Unsafe-Proximity Detection in Construction

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Jun ^a   Razavi, Saiedeh N ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Construction; Distance quantifications; Safety rules; State tracking; Unsafe proximity detection

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; CONSTRUCTION; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; ERRORS; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; KALMAN FILTERS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

CONSTRUCTION APPLICATIONS; CONSTRUCTION SAFETY; DISTANCE QUANTIFICATIONS; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; NEAREST NEIGHBOR METHOD; PROXIMITY DETECTION; SAFETY RULES; STATE TRACKING;

EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84959019879     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000470     Document Type: Article

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