Affiliation:
1. Stochastic Mechanical Systems & Automation (SMSA) Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
Abstract
The problem of random vibration–based robust damage detection for structures operating under varying and non-measurable environmental and operating conditions is considered via a novel unsupervised functional model–based method. Two versions of the method are employed based on either the residual variance or uncorrelatedness (whiteness) of a proper functional model that incorporates the varying environmental and operating conditions in a scheduling vector. This article constitutes a proof-of-concept study in which a comprehensive laboratory assessment of the functional model–based method is undertaken using hundreds of experiments with a composite tail structure of an unmanned aerial vehicle and two early-stage damages under a considerable number of different environmental and operating conditions. Comparisons with two alternative state-of-the-art statistical time series type methods, that is, a multiple model–based method and a principal component analysis–based method, are also performed. The results indicate ideal detection performance for the functional model–based and multiple model–based methods, with the true positive rate reaching 100% at 0% false positive rate, but degraded performance for the pricipal component analysis–based method.
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Biophysics
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