“ Structural Damage Detection and Localization Using NetSHM ” by Krishna Chintalapudi, Jeongyeup Paek, Omprakash Gnawali, Tat Fu, Karthik Dantu, John Caffrey, Ramesh Govindan, and Erik Johnson. In Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks: Special track on Sensor Platform Tools and Design Methods for Networked Embedded Systems (IPSN/SPOTS 2006) , April 2006.
Structural health monitoring (SHM) is an important application area for wireless sensor networks. SHM techniques attempt to autonomously detect and localize damage in large civil structures. Structural engineers often implement and test SHM algorithms in a higher level language such as C/Matlab. In this paper, we describe the design and evaluation of NETSHM, a sensor network system that allows that allows structural engineers to program SHM applications in Matlab or C at a high level of abstraction. In particular, structural engineers do not have to understand the intricacies of wireless networking, or the details of sensor data acquisition. We have implemented a damage detection technique and a damage localization technique on a complete NETSHM prototype. Our experiments on small and medium-scale structures show that NETSHM is able to detect and localized damage perfectly with very few false-positives and no false negatives, and that it is robust even in realistic wireless environments.
BibTeX entry:
@inproceedings{netshmipsn2006,
author = {Krishna Chintalapudi, and Jeongyeup Paek and Omprakash
Gnawali and Tat Fu and Karthik Dantu and John Caffrey and Ramesh
Govindan and Erik Johnson},
title = { {Structural Damage Detection and Localization Using NetSHM} },
booktitle = { Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on
Information Processing in Sensor Networks: Special track on Sensor
Platform Tools and Design Methods for Networked Embedded Systems
(IPSN/SPOTS 2006) },
month = { April },
year = {2006}
}