UNOBTRUSIVE AND AUTOMATED DETECTION OF FREQUENCIES OF SPATIALLY LOCATED DISTINCT PARTS OF A MACHINE

    公开(公告)号:US20190323882A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-24

    申请号:US16248646

    申请日:2019-01-15

    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for unobtrusive and automated detection of frequencies of spatially located distinct parts of a machine. Location of vibration and detection of vibration frequency of each vibrating part in a machine is critical for routine monitoring and fault detection in the machine. Current solutions use either high frames per second (fps) industrial grade camera or stroboscopes tuned at one particular frequency. Manual stroboscopes require manual intervention for objects moving at different speeds with high convergence time. Point-lasers need prior knowledge of exact location of faults. Also Point-by-point scanning of a large machine body is time consuming. In the present disclosure, a movement detector such as RADAR enables detecting all vibration frequencies that also serve to reduce the search space of a stroboscope configured to start strobing at each detected vibration frequency to enable mapping of each vibration frequency to a corresponding vibrating part.

    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NON-CONTACT ULTRASOUND BASED VIBRATION DETECTION

    公开(公告)号:US20210123828A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-29

    申请号:US17036140

    申请日:2020-09-29

    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to method and system for non-contact ultrasound based vibration detection. Here, non-contact vibration detection plays crucial role in industries for monitoring and analyzing machine vibrations to predict early warnings of the potential failures. The method includes receiving, from a non-contact ultrasonic air transducer a signal reflected from a plurality of vibrating parts of a machine. The non-contact ultrasound obtains vibrational frequencies corresponding to the vibrating part of the machine which are further analyzed to determine an electrical impedance of a piezoelectric element. Further, based on the electrical impedance occurred vibrations are detected in each vibrating part from the plurality of vibrating parts of the machine. The measured impedance signal utilizes continuous sinusoidal excitation which enables narrow band filtering to increase signal to noise ratio. The proposed disclosure provides a low cost simple solution thereby reducing design complexity of the non-contact ultrasonic transducer circuit.

    RADAR AND ULTRASOUND SENSOR BASED REAL TIME TRACKING OF A MOVING OBJECT

    公开(公告)号:US20190277961A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-12

    申请号:US16254190

    申请日:2019-01-22

    Abstract: The present disclosure provides means for detecting and tracking a moving object using RADAR and ultrasonic sensors. A stationary RADAR detects the moving object and estimates speed and two rotating ultrasonic sensors determine distance of the detected object. An incrementally changing orientation of the ultrasound sensors is associated with an angular speed of rotation based on a last logged distance of the moving object from the ultrasound sensors. Once the moving object is detected, based on an adaptively changing sampling frequency, the moving object is continuously tracked in real time. Conventionally, multiple RADARs are needed for location estimation and motion tracking. Also, merely using a RADAR in combination with an ultrasound sensor also does not serve the purpose since both sensors are static. The present disclosure provides a simple cost effective alternative that can find application in say tracking of an elderly person living alone in an unobtrusive manner.

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