Deformation Monitoring of Monopole Communication Towers Based on Multi-Source Data Fusion

Abstract

Monopole communication towers play an irreplaceable role in modern communication systems. Because of its high flexibility, lateral loads control the deformation of a monopole communication tower. Dynamic displacement can be used to describe structural vibration characteristics and real-time deformation situations. Therefore, this article proposes a monopole communication tower deformation monitoring method based on multi-source data fusion using dynamic displacement as the evaluation indicator. This method calculates the strain displacement using the strain-mode superposition methodology. Then, the strain displacement and acceleration obtained are processed using Kalman filtering technology to reconstruct the real-time displacements of the monopole communication tower. The effectiveness of this method was verified using numerical simulations and model experiments, respectively. In addition, parametric analysis shows that this method is suitable for processing multi-rate data, has good noise resistance in strong noise environments, and can effectively reconstruct the displacement near the tower bottom. The results indicate that the method has favorable robustness and can accurately reconstruct low-frequency and high-frequency displacements of the monopole communication tower.