Vibration Monitoring of Infrastructure via Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles

• Author / Creator

  Augustine, Rijesh

• This thesis explores vibration monitoring of infrastructure or machinery through an uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) also commonly referred to as a drone. The vibration signature of an object may be used to assess the health of that object. This thesis looks at the means of acquiring this vibration signature in hard-to-access and GPS-denied environments and does not focus on the actual health assessment of infrastructure and machinery. A simple lightweight vibration monitoring arm was developed and mounted onto a drone. This along with an imaging system guided the drone and vibration arm towards a fiducial marker on an artificial vibration target. The thesis work successfully was able to measure vibrations from a vibration target. Future work is required to increase automation, the performance of position and yaw control and vibration sensitivity.

• Subjects / Keywords

  • vibration monitoring
  • infrastructure
  • uav
  • position estimation

• Graduation date

  Fall 2023

• Type of Item

  Thesis

• Degree

  Master of Science

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-d6hh-s003

• License

  This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.