A Digital Twin Framework for Traffic-Aware UAV Pavement Monitoring without Lane Closure

arXiv:2606.20742v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: UAV-based pavement inspection can reduce the cost and risk of road-surface monitoring, but real-world deployment remains difficult when traffic, pedestrians, and temporary occlusions affect the visibility of defects. This paper presents a Unity-based digital twin framework for traffic-aware UAV pavement monitoring without lane closure. The proposed environment integrates procedurally generated road defects, dynamic vehicles and pedestrians, autonom...