TY - GEN
T1 - Structural health monitoring of wind turbines using a low-cost portable k-band radar
T2 - 2015 IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks, WiSNet 2015
AU - Nikoubin, Tooraj
AU - Munoz-Ferreras, Jose Maria
AU - Gomez-Garcia, Roberto
AU - Liang, Daan
AU - Li, Changzhi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/6/17
Y1 - 2015/6/17
N2 - This paper addresses an ab-initio field investigation around using low-cost portable radars to capture coherent Doppler signatures of wind turbines for structural health monitoring (SHM) applications. A handheld low-cost K-band radar sensor is employed to point at the blades of a turbine, and their Doppler signatures from different angles and distances are measured. In particular, spectrograms are built and analyzed. Preliminary results show that the derived Doppler information can be related to physical and kinematical features of the blades. This leads to a great potential of these low-cost radar sensors for real-time wind-turbine SHM.
AB - This paper addresses an ab-initio field investigation around using low-cost portable radars to capture coherent Doppler signatures of wind turbines for structural health monitoring (SHM) applications. A handheld low-cost K-band radar sensor is employed to point at the blades of a turbine, and their Doppler signatures from different angles and distances are measured. In particular, spectrograms are built and analyzed. Preliminary results show that the derived Doppler information can be related to physical and kinematical features of the blades. This leads to a great potential of these low-cost radar sensors for real-time wind-turbine SHM.
KW - Doppler
KW - K-band radar
KW - portable
KW - spectrogram
KW - structural health monitoring (SHM)
KW - wind turbine
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84942756569&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/WISNET.2015.7127404
DO - 10.1109/WISNET.2015.7127404
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84942756569
T3 - 2015 IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks, WiSNet 2015
SP - 69
EP - 71
BT - 2015 IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks, WiSNet 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 25 January 2015 through 28 January 2015
ER -