Real-Time Condition Monitoring of an Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle Using a Scattering-Based Specklemeter Interrogator
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Growing numbers of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) in delivery, surveillance, and military applications are driving the need for automated flight inspections. Traditional inspections are done by ground maintenance crew, which limits total number of operational drones. Here we propose a condition monitoring solution combining optical fibre Bragg gratings (FBGs) with a newly developed scattering interrogation system. Our demonstration shows system stability and effective monitoring of strains incurred on the UAV wings during flight.
Institution: University of Southampton
Language: English
Topic: Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4413454566