Article 2020

Sensors and computer vision as a means to monitor and maintain a UAV structural health

Authors

de Figueiredo, Helosman Valente

Saotome, Osamu

da Silva, Roberto Gil Annes

Imaging and Sensing for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Control and Performance , pp. 281-307

DOI: 10.1049/PBCE120F_ch12

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Abstract

© The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2020.This chapter discusses new approaches to sense and acquire vibration data and to pre-process these data on aeroelastic certification test flights. These new approaches aim to reduce the time to identify the aeroelastic phenomenon and to reduce the size of hardware that must be boarded in the aircraft, thus minimising the risks and costs of the vibration tests. The presented experiments construct a way to develop a non -contact measurement system for flight vibration tests in the aircraft certification process. These experiments have shown that the techniques used today for in-flight trials will be obsolete in the near future, as the aeronautical structures are becoming lighter every day, thus not admitting any additional mass for instrumentation in-flight trials.

Keywords

Aeroelastic certification test flight phenomenon Aeronautical structures Aerospace computing Aerospace engineering computing Aerospace testing and simulation Aircraft Aircraft certification process Computer vision Computer vision Computer vision and image processing techniques Computerised instrumentation Computerised instrumentation Computerised monitoring Condition monitoring Data acquisition Data acquisition equipment and techniques Data acquisition systems Dynamic testing Elasticity Flight vibration testing Measurement of mechanical variables Mechanical variables measurement Optical, image and video signal processing Sensing and detecting devices Sensing devices and transducers Sensors UAV structural health monitoring Vibration data acquisition Vibration data sensing Vibration measurement

Engineering (all) (ENGI)

Roberto Gil Annes da Silva

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