Adaptive, robotic, and mobile sensor systems for structural assessment

Dryver R. Huston; Jonathan Miller; Brian Esser

doi:10.1117/12.546606

29 July 2004 Adaptive, robotic, and mobile sensor systems for structural assessment

Dryver R. Huston, Jonathan Miller, Brian Esser

Proceedings Volume 5391, Smart Structures and Materials 2004: Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.546606
Event: Smart Structures and Materials, 2004, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Structural sensing systems that employ adaptive strategies have the potential to achieve superior performance over nonadaptive counterparts. Adaptation is a means that many systems use to improve performance to compensate for varying and uncertain circumstances. Structural sensing systems can use several different adaptive sensing techniques including adaptive signal processing, adaptive data acquisition protocols, rapidly deployable sensors and mobile sensors. Adaptive signal processing is where the processing that is applied to a given set of data is modified according to the information content in the data or external circumstances. Adaptive data acquisition can be implemented through modifying the acquisition parameters and through the modification of sensor location and spatial sensitivity. The adaptive deployment of sensors requires mobile sensors and mechanisms, such as robots, to move the sensors into more advantageous positions. While the enabling technologies of adaptive sensing systems are readily emerging, optimal and effective adaptive strategies remain largely unexplored. This paper will also discuss some of the issues related to developing effective adaptation strategies for sensing systems and present example applications of adaptive signal processing and mobile robotic sensing applications.

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Dryver R. Huston, Jonathan Miller, and Brian Esser "Adaptive, robotic, and mobile sensor systems for structural assessment", Proc. SPIE 5391, Smart Structures and Materials 2004: Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems, (29 July 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.546606

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