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at Univ. of South Carolina

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Proceedings Article | 18 April 2022 Presentation + Paper

A compensation technique for accurate acceleration measurements using a UAV deployable and retrievable sensor package

Joud Satme, Corinne Smith, Austin R. J. Downey, Jason Bakos, Nikolaos Vitzilaios, Dimitris Rizos

Proceedings Volume 12046, 120460T (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2612945

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Unmanned aerial vehicles, Signal to noise ratio, Electronic filtering, Structural health monitoring, Signal detection, Process modeling, Microelectromechanical systems, Magnetic sensors, Algorithm development

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The rapid assessment of infrastructure following extreme weather or seismic events is important to ensure the stability of structures before their continued use. This work presents an amplitude compensation technique for accurate acceleration measurements formulated for unmanned aerial vehicle’s (UAV) deliverable sensor packages. These packages are designed for measuring the acceleration of structures, for instance, railroad bridges and power transmission towers. Current technology for structural health monitoring is expensive, stationary, and requires maintenance by certified personnel. These attributes prevent rapid assessment of remote and hard-to-reach structures. Low-cost, UAV-delivered sensor packages are an ideal solution due to their ability to be deployed on a large scale in a timely manner; cutting down on cost and the danger affiliated with structural health monitoring following extreme and hazardous events. One challenge to this approach is that the UAV deployable sensor package consists of several systems, including mounting hardware, embedded electronics, and energy storage that result in a loss of transmissibility between the structure and the package’s accelerometer. This work proposes a frequency response-based filter to isolate the structure’s vibration signature from interference caused by the sensor package itself. Utilizing an input-output relationship between the sensor package and a calibrated reference accelerometer, a model transfer function is constructed. Compensation is performed in the post-processing stage using the inverse transfer function model. This approach is shown to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio by 1.2 dB, an increase of 7.17%. This work investigates algorithm robustness and sensitivity to noise across the sensor package’s bandwidth of 6-20 Hz. A discussion on the limitations of the system is provided.

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