Bio-inspired design of sensor system for damage prognosis

Amit Shukla

doi:10.1117/12.597191

9 May 2005 Bio-inspired design of sensor system for damage prognosis

Amit Shukla

Proceedings Volume 5768, Health Monitoring and Smart Nondestructive Evaluation of Structural and Biological Systems IV; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.597191
Event: Nondestructive Evaluation for Health Monitoring and Diagnostics, 2005, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Damage prognosis of structures and systems can be significantly improved by developing intelligent sensors with adaptive sensitivity to the ambient signals via self-tuned criticality. Active amplification of weak signals using an inherent dynamical sensory mechanism which is maintained at the threshold of an oscillatory instability is proposed in this paper as a general framework for designing and developing sensors for damage detection and prognosis for civil and mechanical systems. This idea is inspired by the sensing mechanism of mammalian cochlea to develop a new sensing system paradigm. A numerical feasibility study of such a sensor system is conducted and presented as a building block for more general design and future implementation.

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Amit Shukla "Bio-inspired design of sensor system for damage prognosis", Proc. SPIE 5768, Health Monitoring and Smart Nondestructive Evaluation of Structural and Biological Systems IV, (9 May 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.597191

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