Paper Info
Title
Multi-agent system design and evaluation for collaborative wireless sensor network in large structure health monitoring
Abstract
Much attention has been focused on the research of structural health monitoring (SHM), since it could increase the safety and reduce the maintenance costs of engineering structures. In recent years, wireless sensor network (WSN) has been explored for adoption to improve the centralized cable-based SHM system performances. This paper presents a multi-agent design method and system evaluation for wireless sensor network based structural health monitoring to validate the efficiency of the multi-agent technology. Through the cooperation of six different agents for SHM applications, the distributed wireless sensor network can automatically allocate SHM tasks, self-organize the sensor network and aggregate different sensor information. In the evaluation work, the strain gauge and PZT sensors are used to monitor strain distribution change and joint failure of an experimental aluminum plate structure. A dedicated sensor network platform including the wireless strain node, wireless PZT node and wireless USB station is designed for the evaluation system. Based on the hardware platform, the multi-agents software architecture is defined. The multi-agent monitoring principle and implementation in the validation work for two typical kinds of structure states are presented. This paper shows the efficiency of the multi-agent technology for WSN based the SHM applications on the large aircraft structures.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.eswa.2009.06.098
Expert Syst. Appl.
Keywords
Field
DocType
wireless sensor network,wireless strain node,aggregate different sensor information,wireless usb station,wireless pzt node,pzt sensor,large structure health monitoring,multi-agent,sensor network,shm application,multi-agent technology,collaborative wireless,multi-agent system design,structural health monitoring,dedicated sensor network platform,software architecture,design method,self organization,system performance,multi agent system,strain gauge
Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Wireless,Structural health monitoring,Wireless site survey,Computer science,Mobile wireless sensor network,Wi-Fi array,Wireless USB,Wireless sensor network,Embedded system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
37
3
Expert Systems With Applications
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
0.94
5
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jian Wu1140.94
Shenfang Yuan27612.49
Sai Ji3367.10
Genyuan Zhou4211.52
Y.-Y. Wang553975.11
Zilong Wang614624.23