Wireless Passive RFID Crack Width Sensor for Structural Health Monitoring

Caizzone, Stefano; Giampaolo, E. Di

doi:10.1109/jsen.2015.2457455

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“…A crack width RFID sensor based on high sensitivity phase detection of passive RFID is presented in [11]. The described sensor can detect submillimetre deformation occurring on the object.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For instance, it can be used to discriminate the variation of materials as a transmission medium of the radio waves. Therefore, RFID tags are also innovatively used as electromagnetic sensors for different measurement purposes, such as strain detection [6], [7], material corrosion analysis [8], [9], crack detection [10], [11], [12] and food quality evaluation [13], [14].…”

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RFID Tag as a Sensor - A Review on the Innovative Designs and Applications

Meng

2016

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The Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has gained interests in both academia and industry since its invention. In addition to the applications in access control and supply chain, RFID is also a cost-efficient solution for Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) and pervasive monitoring. The battery free RFID tags are used as independent electromagnetic sensors or energy harvesting and data transmission interface of sensor modules for different measurement purposes. This review paper aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the innovative designs and applications of RFID sensor technology with new insights, identify the technical challenges, and outline the future perspectives. With a brief introduction to the fundamentals of RFID measurement, the enabling technologies and recent technical progress are illustrated, followed by an extensive discussion of the novel designs and applications. Then, based on an in-depth analysis, the potential constraints are identified and the envisaged future directions are suggested, including printable/wearable RFID, System-on-Chip (SoC), ultra-low power, etc. The comprehensive discussion of RFID sensor technology will be inspirational and useful for academic and industrial communities in investigating, developing, and applying RFID for various measurement applications.

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RFID Tag as a Sensor - A Review on the Innovative Designs and Applications

Meng

2016

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“…However, the installation of the large size antenna may affect the mechanical behavior of structure. In conjunction with backscattered phase measurement, two coupled RFID antenna sensors were developed for crack width characterization [11]. A sub-mm crack enlargement can be detected using a commercial UHF reader in a distance of 1.5 m. Nevertheless, the distance and orientation between reader and tag are not allowed to vary during the whole monitoring cycle because the phase measurement is dependent on the wireless channel.…”

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Feature Extraction for Robust Crack Monitoring Using Passive Wireless RFID Antenna Sensors

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Radio frequency identification (RFID) tag antenna based passive wireless sensors are receiving increasing attentions for structural health monitoring (SHM) in large-scale infrastructure. For permanently-installed monitoring, robustness to measurement variation including environmental conditions is a practical issue. This paper retrospects the communication principle of magnetic resonant coupling (MRC) for low frequency (LF) passive wireless RFID antenna sensors. The influence of communication is uncovered and essentially separated from sensing through two steps: sweep (source) frequency to capture the system behavior, i. e., resonance frequency range; multiple feature extraction, fusion, and selection in conjunction with normalization for the selected time-domain feature of peak to peak (P2P). By this way, the robustness of the low-cost RFID sensing system is enhanced. The proposed method is validated by the case study in open crack detection and characterization under varied measurement conditions.

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“…The use of tag antenna sensing capability is divided into two categories direct and indirect measurement strategies [1] [2]. The direct strategy may include tag turn on power [5], backscattered power [6], and phase [7]. The indirect strategy may include radar cross section (RCS) [8], an analog identifier (AID) [3], and an inphase/quadrature IQ signal based sensing [4].…”

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“…Alternatively, a new reliable methodology is used, which we call it power peak feature extraction (PPFE), and it achieves high accuracy result with a direct relationship between the crack depth increment and the change of the skewness function when compared with the accuracy achieved in [7] [16].…”

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Passive UHF RFID Tag as a Sensor for Crack Depths

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The use of UHF RFID passive tags for defect detection is a promising application in structural health monitoring. However, it's a challenging task while most related information to tag antenna design is not available as well it suffers from the interference effect on wireless measurements. In this article, we investigated and developed a new technique for crack depth sensing by using a passive UHF RFID tag as a sensor which interrogated by thingmagic M6e platform. Wireless power transfer WPT level and the frequency sweeping are used to match between tag impedance and metal induction effect. The distance between the tag and reader is adjusted at 30cm which can achieve high quality factor. As a result, the tag backscatter signal become rich with maximum peak components. The proposed technique called power peaks feature extraction (PPFE) which is used to detect the artificial crack depth on the surface of the stainless steel and ferromagnetic samples. Skewness is applied on PPFE to offer a direct approximation procedure for the crack depth. A linear relationship of skewness achieves high accuracy result with a maximum estimation error of 0.1 mm for stainless steel sample, the technique is validated and compared with the frequency domain result, and it achieves all most the same accuracy for the stainless steel sample. Technology of China. His main research interests include electromagnetic sensors, sensor array and sensor network, electromagnetic non-destructive evaluation, advanced signal processing and integrative systems and applications. He has coordinated several research projects from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Royal Academy of Engineering and FP7. Also, he has good collaboration with leading industrial companies such as Airbus, Rolls Royce, BP, nPower, Network Rail and TWI among others.

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Wireless Passive RFID Crack Width Sensor for Structural Health Monitoring

Cited by 103 publications

References 23 publications

RFID Tag as a Sensor - A Review on the Innovative Designs and Applications

RFID Tag as a Sensor - A Review on the Innovative Designs and Applications

Feature Extraction for Robust Crack Monitoring Using Passive Wireless RFID Antenna Sensors

Passive UHF RFID Tag as a Sensor for Crack Depths

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