Two-axes tilt sensing using circular gratings moiré

Tan, P. Y.; Yen, Kuo‐Yang; Ahmad, Fauziah; Ratnam, Mani Maran

doi:10.1117/1.oe.58.4.044103

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“…The idea of using moiré patterns as sensors was extended to slope movement sensing in several interrelated works. [19][20][21][22] A novel tilt sensing device was designed and developed for sensing tilt in any arbitrary plane. The sensor composed of two overlapping pitch mismatched gratings mounted inside a water-filled sealed chamber.…”

Section: Development Of Moiré Sensors At Universiti Sains Malaysiamentioning

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“…The idea of using moiré patterns as sensors was extended to slope movement sensing in several interrelated works . A novel tilt sensing device was designed and developed for sensing tilt in any arbitrary plane.…”

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“…Various experiments were carried out, such as repeatability of moiré patterns when using different types of liquids in the chamber and study of relationship between the peak‐to‐valley height of the transformed polar curve and tilt angle . In a recently published work, a method to automatically analyze the moiré fringes and extract features that can be used to sense tilt angles was proposed. The moiré patterns were subjected to several sequential image processing operations, such as low‐pass filtering, polar transformation, column‐wise polynomial fitting, fringe center tracking, unwrapping, and sine function fitting.…”

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Novel moiré‐based crack monitoring system with smartphone interface and cloud processing

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Yen

2019

Struct Control Health Monit

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Summary A popular optical‐mechanical method used to monitor crack growth in concrete structures is based on the moiré effect. The moiré patterns are usually interpreted manually using a read‐out chart or by off‐line processing using custom‐made application software installed in a personal computer. Such methods are not convenient for on‐site crack inspection and measurement. In this work, cloud‐based application software has been developed that can be used to process moiré pattern images sent via a standard smartphone. The moiré pattern resulting from the overlapping of two circular gratings mounted across a crack is captured using the smartphone camera, cropped, and sent via Wi‐Fi or mobile data to cloud server. The cloud server software receives the moiré pattern image and processes it using an image processing algorithm to return the displacement magnitude and direction to the mobile device within a few seconds. The communication between the mobile software and cloud software is via Representational State Transfer protocol that allows further development to accommodate other client platforms. The accuracy of the algorithm has been tested by comparing the displacement data returned by the cloud server using controlled experiment. In the experiment, the gratings were subjected to in‐plane displacement along two orthogonal axes using 0.001‐mm resolution digital micrometers. The results show that the displacement magnitude and displacement direction can be determined within an accuracy of ±0.05 mm and ±5°, respectively. The smartphone interface with cloud processing of moiré patterns is shown to be a promising tool for on‐site crack inspection and monitoring.

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Section: Development Of Moiré Sensors At Universiti Sains Malaysiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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