Contact force signal analysis of current collecting with bispectrum and wavelet

Author(s):  
S. Kudo ◽  
S. Honda ◽  
M. Ikeda
Author(s):  
Alireza Alemi ◽  
Francesco Corman ◽  
Yusong Pang ◽  
Gabriel Lodewijks

Wheel impact load detectors are widespread railway systems used for measuring the wheel–rail contact force. They usually measure the rail strain and convert it to force in order to detect high impact forces and corresponding detrimental wheels. The measured strain signal can also be used to identify the defect type and its severity. The strain sensors have a limited effective zone that leads to partial observation from the wheels. Therefore, wheel impact load detectors exploit multiple sensors to collect samples from different portions of the wheels. The discrete measurement by multiple sensors provides the magnitude of the force; however, it does not provide the much richer variation pattern of the contact force signal. Therefore, this paper proposes a fusion method to associate the collected samples to their positions over the wheel circumferential coordinate. This process reconstructs an informative signal from the discrete samples collected by multiple sensors. To validate the proposed method, the multiple sensors have been simulated by an ad hoc multibody dynamic software (VI-Rail), and the outputs have been fed to the fusion model. The reconstructed signal represents the contact force and consequently the wheel defect. The obtained results demonstrate considerable similarity between the contact force and the reconstructed defect signal that can be used for further defect identification.


2017 ◽  
Vol 09 (06) ◽  
pp. 1750081 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan-Fang Zhang ◽  
Julien Cesbron ◽  
Hai-Ping Yin ◽  
Michel Bérengier

This paper proposes a novel experimental test apparatus that permits direct measurements of tyre/asperity normal contact forces under rolling conditions without interfacial layer. A reduced-sized pneumatic tyre is set rolling on the exterior surface of a cylindrical test rig simulating a smooth road surface except a single asperity of simple geometric shape connected to an embedded force transducer. Distinct asperity geometries lead to similar shapes of force signal but different magnitudes whose relationships with the indentation have exponents close to those in classical analytical solutions. By analyzing the time signals of the contact force and their frequency contents for different rolling speeds, the quasi-static nature of the contact, commonly assumed in numerical models, is verified.


2018 ◽  
Vol 98 (9-12) ◽  
pp. 2377-2387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Li ◽  
Xuda Qin ◽  
Tian Huang ◽  
Xianping Liu ◽  
Dan Sun ◽  
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2009 ◽  
Vol 06 (02) ◽  
pp. 73-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
WEIMIN SHEN ◽  
JASON GU

When our proposed neurosurgical robot is applied, the neurosurgeon usually wants to sense the force on the remote site to operate on patients. The force signal analysis is of critical importance for neurosurgeons to perform stable, reliable, and safe operations. In this paper, based on the stationary wavelet transform (SWT), force information analysis and process is designed. Since force sampled by the JR3 sensor contains noise from the sensor and mechanical vibration when drilling, to smooth the force signal sent to the operator, SWT-based force information de-noising is proposed to reduce the noise significantly, especially for the force along the x and y axes. Simulations and experiments further verified the proposed research.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Yongzhi Wang ◽  
Sicheng Zhu ◽  
Qian Zhang ◽  
Ran Zhou ◽  
Rutong Dou ◽  
...  

The adjustment times of the attitude alignment are fluctuated due to the fluctuation of the contact force signal caused by the disturbing moments in the compliant peg-in-hole assembly. However, these fluctuations are difficult to accurately measure or definition as a result of many uncertain factors in the working environment. It is worth noting that gravitational disturbing moments and inertia moments significantly impact these fluctuations, in which the changes of the peg concerning the mass and the length have a crucial influence on them. In this paper, a visual grasping strategy based on deep reinforcement learning is proposed for peg-in-hole assembly. Firstly, the disturbing moments of assembly are analyzed to investigate the factors for the fluctuation of assembly time. Then, this research designs a visual grasping strategy, which establishes a mapping relationship between the grasping position and the assembly time to improve the assembly efficiency. Finally, a robotic system for the assembly was built in V-REP to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, and the robot can complete the training independently without human intervention and manual labeling in the grasping training process. The simulated results show that this method can improve assembly efficiency by 13.83%. And, when the mass and the length of the peg change, the proposed method is still effective for the improvement of assembly efficiency.


Author(s):  
Weihai Sun ◽  
Lemei Han

Machine fault detection has great practical significance. Compared with the detection method that requires external sensors, the detection of machine fault by sound signal does not need to destroy its structure. The current popular audio-based fault detection often needs a lot of learning data and complex learning process, and needs the support of known fault database. The fault detection method based on audio proposed in this paper only needs to ensure that the machine works normally in the first second. Through the correlation coefficient calculation, energy analysis, EMD and other methods to carry out time-frequency analysis of the subsequent collected sound signals, we can detect whether the machine has fault.


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