Development of an off-the-shelf field programmable gate array-based wireless sensing unit for structural health monitoring

Chetan Kapoor; Troy L. Graves-Abe; Jin-Song Pei

doi:10.1117/12.600348

17 May 2005 Development of an off-the-shelf field programmable gate array-based wireless sensing unit for structural health monitoring

Chetan Kapoor, Troy L. Graves-Abe, Jin-Song Pei

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Proceedings Volume 5765, Smart Structures and Materials 2005: Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.600348
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2005, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

This paper presents the preliminary results of an investigation on the application of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to civil infrastructure health monitoring. An off-the-shelf FPGA development board available at a comparable price to microprocessor development boards is adopted in this study. Advantages, disadvantages, feasibility and design concerns when using such a reconfigurable hardware architecture for implementing algorithms for structural health monitoring in a wireless sensor unit are studied in a showcase of implementing Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) in a wireless data transmitting setting.

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Chetan Kapoor, Troy L. Graves-Abe, and Jin-Song Pei "Development of an off-the-shelf field programmable gate array-based wireless sensing unit for structural health monitoring", Proc. SPIE 5765, Smart Structures and Materials 2005: Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems, (17 May 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.600348

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