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

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© 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.

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