Title
Realtime Localization and Estimation of Loads on Aircraft Wings from Depth Images.
Abstract
This paper deals with the development of a realtime structural health monitoring system for airframe structures to localize and estimate the magnitude of the loads causing deflections to the critical components, such as wings. To this end, a framework that is based on artificial neural networks is developed where features that are extracted from a depth camera are utilized. The localization of the load is treated as a multinomial logistic classification problem and the load magnitude estimation as a logistic regression problem. The neural networks trained for classification and regression are preceded with an autoencoder, through which maximum informative data at a much smaller scale are extracted from the depth features. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated by an experimental study performed on a composite unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wing subject to concentrated and distributed loads, and the results obtained by the proposed method are superior when compared with a method based on Castigliano's theorem.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3390/s20123405
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
structural health monitoring,load localization,load estimation,depth sensor,artificial neural networks,castigliano's theorem
Journal
20
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
12.0
1424-8220
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Diyar Khalis Bilal101.35
Mustafa Ünel215420.71
Mehmet Can Yildiz346730.50
Bahattin Koc4598.13