Simultaneous Dynamics-Based Visual Inspection Using Modal Parameter Estimation

In this study, we introduce the concept of dynamicsbased visual inspection with High-Frame-Rate (HFR) video analysis as a novel non-destructive active sensing method for verifying dynamic properties of a vibrating object. The HFR video is used for determining the structural dynamic properties of an object, such as its resonant frequencies and mode shapes, which can be estimated as modal parameters by modal analysis only when the object is excited. By improving and implementing a fast output-only modal parameter estimation algorithm on a real-time 2000-fps vision platform, the modal parameters of an excited object are simultaneously estimated as its input-invariant dynamic properties for dynamics-based visual inspection evenwhen the objects undergo different excitation conditions. Our simultaneous 2000-fps visual inspection system can facilitate non-destructive and longterm monitoring of the structures of beam-shaped objects vibrating at dozens or hundreds of hertz, and it can detect small changes in the dynamic properties of these objects caused by internal defects such as fatigue cracks in real time, even when their static appearances are similar. To demonstrate the performance of the proposed 2000-fps simultaneous dynamics-based visual inspection approach, the resonant frequencies and mode shapes for beam-shaped cantilevers with different artificial cracks and weights, excited by human finger tapping, were estimated in real time.