Structural health monitoring (SHM) systems are critical for monitoring aging infrastructure (such as buildings or bridges) in a cost-effective manner. Wireless sensor networks that sample vibration data over time are particularly appealing for SHM applications due to their flexibility and low cost. However, in order to extend the battery life of wireless sensor nodes, it is essential to minimize the amount of vibration data these sensors must collect and transmit. In recent work, we have studied the performance of the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) applied to the collection of data and provided new finite sample analysis characterizing conditions under which this simple technique{also known as the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD){can correctly estimate the mode shapes of the structure. Specifically, we provided theoretical guarantees on the number and duration of samples required in order to estimate a structure's mode shapes to a desired level of accuracy. In that previous work, however, we considered simplified Multiple-Degree-Of-Freedom (MDOF) systems with no damping. In this paper we consider MDOF systems with proportional damping and show that, with sufficiently light damping, the POD can continue to provide accurate estimates of a structure's mode shapes. We support our discussion with new analytical insight and experimental demonstrations. In particular, we study the tradeoffs between the level of damping, the sampling rate and duration, and the accuracy to which the structure's mode shapes can be estimated.
KEYWORDS: Sensors, Compressed sensing, Bridges, Structural health monitoring, Energy efficiency, Data acquisition, Reconstruction algorithms, Wireless communications, Magnetic sensors, Modal analysis
Wireless sensors have emerged to offer low-cost sensors with impressive functionality (e.g., data acquisition, computing, and communication) and modular installations. Such advantages enable higher nodal densities than tethered systems resulting in increased spatial resolution of the monitoring system. However, high nodal density comes at a cost as huge amounts of data are generated, weighing heavy on power sources, transmission bandwidth, and data management requirements, often making data compression necessary. The traditional compression paradigm consists of high rate (>Nyquist) uniform sampling and storage of the entire target signal followed by some desired compression scheme prior to transmission. The recently proposed compressed sensing (CS) framework combines the acquisition and compression stage together, thus removing the need for storage and operation of the full target signal prior to transmission. The effectiveness of the CS approach hinges on the presence of a sparse representation of the target signal in a known basis, similarly exploited by several traditional compressive sensing applications today (e.g., imaging, MRI). Field implementations of CS schemes in wireless SHM systems have been challenging due to the lack of commercially available sensing units capable of sampling methods (e.g., random) consistent with the compressed sensing framework, often moving evaluation of CS techniques to simulation and post-processing. The research presented here describes implementation of a CS sampling scheme to the Narada wireless sensing node and the energy efficiencies observed in the deployed sensors. Of interest in this study is the compressibility of acceleration response signals collected from a multi-girder steel-concrete composite bridge. The study shows the benefit of CS in reducing data requirements while ensuring data analysis on compressed data remain accurate.
•We study the problem of finding a Fourier representation R of m terms for a given discrete signal A of length N. The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) can find the optimal N-term representation in time O(N log N) time, but our goal is to get sublinear time algorithms when m << N. Suppose ||A||2 ≤M||A-Ropt||2, where Ropt is the optimal output. The previously best known algorithms output R such that ||A-R||22≤(1+ε))||A-Ropt||22 with probability at least 1-δ in time* poly(m,log(1/δ),log N,log M,1/ε). Although this is sublinear in the input size, the dominating expression is the polynomial factor in m which, for published algorithms, is greater than or equal to the bottleneck at m2 that we identify below. Our experience with these algorithms shows that this is serious limitation in theory and in practice. Our algorithm beats this m2 bottleneck. Our main result is a significantly improved algorithm for this problem and the d-dimensional analog. Our algorithm outputs an R with the same approximation guarantees but it runs in time m•poly(log(1/δ),log N,log M,1/ε). A version of the algorithm holds for all N, though the details differ slightly according to the factorization of N. For the d-dimensional problem of size N1 × N2 × •• × Nd, the linear-in-m algorithm extends efficiently to higher dimensions for certain factorizations of the Ni's; we give a quadratic-in-m algorithm that works for any values of Ni's. This article replaces several earlier, unpublished drafts.
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