• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.521-535
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• 2022

Efficient management of deteriorating civil infrastructure is one of the most important research topics in many developed countries. In particular, the remote displacement measurement of bridges using linear variable differential transformers, global positioning systems, laser Doppler vibrometers, and computer vision technologies has been attempted extensively. This paper proposes a remote displacement measurement system using closed-circuit televisions (CCTVs) and a computer-vision-based method for in-situ bridge bearings having relatively large displacement due to temperature change in long term. The hardware of the system is composed of a reference target for displacement measurement, a CCTV to capture target images, a gateway to transmit images via a mobile network, and a central server to store and process transmitted images. The usage of CCTV capable of night vision capture and wireless data communication enable long-term 24-hour monitoring on wide range of bridge area. The computer vision algorithm to estimate displacement from the images involves image preprocessing for enhancing the circular features of the target, circular Hough transformation for detecting circles on the target in the whole field-of-view (FOV), and homography transformation for converting the movement of the target in the images into an actual expansion displacement. The simple target design and robust circle detection algorithm help to measure displacement using target images where the targets are far apart from each other. The proposed system is installed at the Tancheon Overpass located in Seoul, and field experiments are performed to evaluate the accuracy of circle detection and displacement measurements. The circle detection accuracy is evaluated using 28,542 images captured from 71 CCTVs installed at the testbed, and only 48 images (0.168%) fail to detect the circles on the target because of subpar imaging conditions. The accuracy of displacement measurement is evaluated using images captured for 17 days from three CCTVs; the average and root-mean-square errors are 0.10 and 0.131 mm, respectively, compared with a similar displacement measurement. The long-term operation of the system, as evaluated using 8-month data, shows high accuracy and stability of the proposed system.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.287-301
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• 2022

The machine-vision based structural displacement measurement methods are widely used due to its flexible deployment and non-contact measurement characteristics. The accuracy of vision measurement is directly related to the image resolution. In the field of computer vision, super-resolution reconstruction is an emerging method to improve image resolution. Particularly, the deep-learning based image super-resolution methods have shown great potential for improving image resolution and thus the machine-vision based measurement. In this article, we firstly review the latest progress of several deep learning based super-resolution models, together with the public benchmark datasets and the performance evaluation index. Secondly, we construct a binocular visual measurement platform to measure the distances of the adjacent corners on a chessboard that is universally used as a target when measuring the structure displacement via machine-vision based approaches. And then, several typical deep learning based super resolution algorithms are employed to improve the visual measurement performance. Experimental results show that super-resolution reconstruction technology can improve the accuracy of distance measurement of adjacent corners. According to the experimental results, one can find that the measurement accuracy improvement of the super resolution algorithms is not consistent with the existing quantitative performance evaluation index. Lastly, the current challenges and future trends of super resolution algorithms for visual measurement applications are pointed out.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.393-407
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• 2023

To assess structural condition in a non-destructive manner, computer vision-based structural health monitoring (SHM) has become a focus. Compared to traditional contact-type sensors, the advantages of computer vision-based measurement systems include lower installation costs and broader measurement areas. In this study, we propose a novel computer vision-based vibration measurement and coarse-to-fine damage assessment method for truss bridges. First, a deep learning model FairMOT is introduced to track the regions of interest (ROIs) that include joints to enhance the automation performance compared with traditional target tracking algorithms. To calculate the displacement of the tracked ROIs accurately, a normalized cross-correlation method is adopted to fine-tune the offset, while the Harris corner matching is utilized to correct the vibration displacement errors caused by the non-parallel between the truss plane and the image plane. Then, based on the advantages of the stochastic damage locating vector (SDLV) and Bayesian inference-based stochastic model updating (BI-SMU), they are combined to achieve the coarse-to-fine localization of the truss bridge's damaged elements. Finally, the severity quantification of the damaged components is performed by the BI-SMU. The experiment results show that the proposed method can accurately recognize the vibration displacement and evaluate the structural damage.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제15권9호
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• pp.5854-5860
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 대표적인 토목구조물인 교량에서 영상 기반 변위 계측장치(VDMS)를 이용하여 변위를 측정하고, 고가의 변위측정장비인 LDV와의 비교를 통하여 그 현장 적용 성능을 평가하였다. 본 연구에서 사용한 VDMS는 카메라와 마커, 프레임 그래버, 노트북으로 구성되었으며, 마커를 구조물에 부착하여 그 영상을 촬영하고 평면 호모그래피 기법을 이용하여 마커가 부착된 구조물의 변위를 측정하는 장치이다. 개발된 VDMS의 성능 검증을 위하여 우선 소형 구조물을 이용한 간단한 실내 실험을 수행하였다. 다음으로 실제 철도교량에서 KTX를 다양한 조건으로 주행하고, 그에 의하여 발생한 변위를 VDMS과 LDV를 이용하여 계측한 뒤, 얻어진 두 변위를 비교하여 VDMS의 현장 적용 성능을 평가하였다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.409-419
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• 2023

Structural integrity can be accessed from dynamic deformations of structures. Moreover, dynamic deformations can be acquired from non-contact sensors such as video cameras. Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi (KLT) algorithm is one of the commonly used methods for motion tracking. However, averaging throughout the extracted features would induce bias in the measurement. In addition, pixel-wise measurements can be converted to physical units through camera intrinsic. Still, the depth information is unreachable without prior knowledge of the space information. The assigned homogeneous coordinates would then mismatch manually selected feature points, resulting in measurement errors during coordinate transformation. In this study, a two-stage optimization method for video-based measurements is proposed. The manually selected feature points are first optimized by minimizing the errors compared with the homogeneous coordinate. Then, the optimized points are utilized for the KLT algorithm to extract displacements through inverse projection. Two additional criteria are employed to eliminate outliers from KLT, resulting in more reliable displacement responses. The second-stage optimization subsequently fine-tunes the geometry of the selected coordinates. The optimization process also considers the number of interpolation points at different depths of an image to reduce the effect of out-of-plane motions. As a result, the proposed method is numerically investigated by using a truss bridge as a physics-based graphic model (PBGM) to extract high-accuracy displacements from recorded videos under various capturing angles and structural conditions.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제23권7호
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• pp.87-94
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• 2019

최근 구조물 계측분야에서 구조물의 동적 변위응답 측정에 관한 연구가 주목을 받고 있다. 본 연구는 이와 같은 동적 변위데이터의 활용도를 넓히고자 구조안전도 평가를 위한 방법론 제시를 목표로, 동적 변위데이터를 활용하여 부공간 시스템 식별법이 적용된 구조물 물리량 추정기법을 개발하였다. 진동 변위 데이터로부터의 상태공간모델을 추정하기 위한 부공간 시스템 식별 이론과 시스템의 물리량을 도출하기 위한 물리해석 기법을 제시하였고 실험적 검증을 위해 동적 실험을 수행하였다. 3자유도 철골 구조물을 제작하여 진동대를 활용해 지반 가진하여 각 층의 변위 데이터와 진동대의 가속도 데이터를 계측하였다. 계측된 데이터를 활용해 이산화 된 상태공간모델을 생성하였고 정밀도 파악을 위해 상태공간방정식을 통한 전산 해석을 수행하였으며, 철제 구조물의 상태공간모델로부터 층강성을 추출하였다. 또한 상태공간모델로부터 추출된 층강성을 기준으로 5가지의 기둥강성 보강 및 손상 시나리오를 설정하여 매 시나리오별 층강성 변화율을 추출하였으며 동일한 조건의 보강 및 손상의 경우, 강성 변화가 높은 일치율을 보이는 것을 확인하였다.