IP Library Granted Patent US 9,310,341
Granted Patent B2
US 9,310,341 · App. 13/900,216 · Granted Apr 12, 2016

Method and system for three-dimensional vibration measurement using vibrometer

Inventors: Kyi Hwan Park (Gwangju, KR); Dong Kyu Kim (Gwangju, KR)
Assignee: GWANGJU INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
G01N29/2418G01H9/00
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Patent No.
US 9,310,341
App. No.
13/900,216
Granted
Apr 12, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed herein are a system and method for three-dimensional vibration measurement. The method includes measuring vibration components and shape information at a vibration measurement point of a measurement target by sequentially emitting laser beams to the vibration measurement point of the measurement target at each of three measuring positions for measuring vibration of the measurement target; obtaining transformation matrices between first to third coordinate systems with respect to each of the measuring positions and a local coordinate system with respect to the vibration measurement point of the measurement target, based on the shape information; measuring angles between unit vectors of respective axes of the local coordinate system and direction vectors of the laser beams emitted with reference to the first to third coordinate systems upon measuring the vibration components; and measuring three-dimensional vibration of the measurement target based on the vibration components and the angles.

Claims (31)

1. A three-dimensional vibration measurement method comprising:

by a distance-measuring device, obtaining shape information of a measurement target by measuring a distance from the measurement target;

by a vibrometer, sequentially emitting laser beams to a vibration measurement point of the measurement target at each of three measuring positions for measuring vibration of the measurement target to measure vibration components at the vibration measurement point;

by the vibrometer, obtaining transformation matrices between first to third coordinate systems with respect to each of the measuring positions and a local coordinate system with respect to the vibration measurement point of the measurement target, based on the shape information obtained by the distance-measuring device;

by the vibrometer, measuring angles between unit vectors of respective axes of the local coordinate system and direction vectors of the laser beams emitted with reference to the first to third coordinate systems upon measuring the vibration components; and

by the vibrometer, measuring three-dimensional vibration of the measurement target based on the vibration components and the angles.

2. The three-dimensional vibration measurement method according to claim 1 , wherein the obtaining the transformation matrix comprises:

obtaining a transformation matrix between the first coordinate system and the local coordinate system with respect to the vibration measurement point of the measurement target, based on the shape information obtained by the distance-measuring device;

obtaining a transformation matrix between the first coordinate system and the second coordinate system with respect to the measuring position, based on the shape information obtained by the distance-measuring device; and

obtaining a transformation matrix between the first coordinate system and the third coordinate system with respect to the measuring position, based on the shape information obtained by the distance-measuring device.

3. The three-dimensional vibration measurement method according to claim 1 , wherein the measuring angles comprises:

transforming the unit vectors of the respective axes of the local coordinate system and the direction vectors of first to third laser beams into the first coordinate system, using the transformation matrices between the first coordinate system (a coordinate system at the first measuring position among the three measuring positions), the local coordinate system at each vibration measurement point of the measurement target and the second to third coordinate systems; and

measuring angles α, β, γ by applying an inner product between the unit vectors of the respective axes of the transformed local coordinated system and the transformed direction vectors of the first to third laser beams.

4. The three-dimensional vibration measurement method according to claim 1 , wherein the measuring angles comprises:

measuring angles α 1 , β 1 , γ 1 between direction vectors of a first laser beam emitted with reference to the first coordinate system and the unit vectors of the respective axes of the local coordinate system with reference to the first coordinate system transformed using a transformation matrix between the local coordinate system and the first coordinate system;

measuring angles α 2 , β 2 , γ 2 between the unit vectors of the respective axes of the local coordinate system with reference to the first coordinate system and direction vectors of a second laser beam transformed using a transformation matrix between the second coordinate system and the first coordinate system; and

measuring angles α 3 , β 3 , γ 3 between the unit vectors of the respective axes of the local coordinate system with reference to the first coordinate system and direction vectors of a third laser beam transformed using a transformation matrix between the third coordinate system and the first coordinate system.

5. The three-dimensional vibration measurement method according to claim 1 , wherein the measuring three-dimensional vibration comprises:

measuring vibration components in a direction perpendicular to a measuring plane and vibration components in a direction parallel to the measuring plane at the vibration measurement point of the measurement target, using cosine values cos α, cos β, cos γ of the angles α, β, γ and vibration components V 1 , V 2 , V 3 measured at the vibration measurement point according to the three measuring positions.

6. The three-dimensional vibration measurement method according to claim 1 , wherein the three measuring positions are disposed in a triangular arrangement.

7. The three-dimensional vibration measurement method according to claim 1 , wherein the three-dimensional vibration of the measurement target is measured using a single vibrometer and a single distance-measuring device to measure vibration components and shape information a total of three times while changing the measuring positions.

8. The three-dimensional vibration measurement method according to claim 1 , wherein the distance-measuring device comprises a laser range finder, and the vibrometer comprises a laser scanning vibrometer including a laser beam scanner disposed in a laser Doppler vibrometer.

9. A system for measuring three-dimensional vibration of a measurement target using a single distance-measuring device and a single vibrometer,

wherein the distance-measuring device obtains shape information regarding a vibration measurement point of a measurement target; and

wherein the vibrometer which measures vibration components at the vibration measurement point by sequentially emitting laser beams to the vibration measurement point of the measurement target at each of three measuring positions, obtains transformation matrices between first to third coordinate systems with respect to each of the measuring positions and a local coordinate system with respect to the vibration measurement point of the measurement target, based on the shape information obtained by the distance-measuring device, measures angles between unit vectors of respective axes of the local coordinate system with reference to the local coordinate system upon measuring the vibration components and direction vectors of the laser beams emitted with reference to the first to third coordinates, and measures three-dimensional vibration of the measurement target based on the vibration components and the angles.

10. The system according to claim 9 , wherein the distance-measuring device measures a distance from the measurement target and obtains the shape information of the measurement target.

11. The system according to claim 9 , wherein the vibrometer measures the vibration components at the vibration measurement point by sequentially emitting the laser beams at each of the three measuring positions.

12. The system according to claim 9 , wherein the vibrometer obtains a transformation matrix between the first coordinate system and the local coordinate system with respect to the vibration measurement point of the measurement target, a transformation matrix between the first coordinate system and the second coordinate system with respect to the measuring position, and a transformation matrix between the first coordinate system and the third coordinate system with respect to the measuring position, based on the shape information at the vibration measurement point obtained by the distance-measuring device.

13. The system according to claim 9 , wherein the vibrometer transforms the unit vectors of the respective axes of the local coordinate system and direction vectors of first to third laser beams into the first coordinate system, using the transformation matrices between the first coordinate system (a coordinate system at the first measuring position among the three measuring positions), the local coordinate system at each vibration measurement point of the measurement target and the second to third coordinate systems, and measures angles α, β, γ by applying an inner product between the unit vectors of the respective axes of the transformed local coordinated system and the transformed direction vectors of the first to third laser beams.

14. The system according to claim 13 , wherein the vibrometer measures angles α 1 , β 1 , γ 1 between the direction vectors of the first laser beam emitted with reference to the first coordinate system and the unit vectors of the respective axes of the local coordinate system with reference to the first coordinate system transformed using a transformation matrix between the local coordinate system and the first coordinate system, measures angles α 2 , β 2 , γ 2 between the unit vectors of the respective axes of the local coordinate system with reference to the first coordinate system and the direction vectors of the second laser beam transformed using a transformation matrix between the second coordinate system and the first coordinate system, and measures angles α 3 , β 3 , γ 3 between the unit vectors of the respective axes of the local coordinate system with reference to the first coordinate system and the direction vectors of the third laser beam transformed using a transformation matrix between the third coordinate system and the first coordinate system.

15. The system according to claim 9 , wherein the vibrometer measures vibration components in a direction perpendicular to a measuring plane and vibration components in a direction parallel to the measuring plane at the vibration measurement point of the measurement target, using cosine values cos α, cos β, cos γ of the angles α, β, γ and vibration components V 1 , V 2 , V 3 measured at the vibration measurement point according to the three measuring positions.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 23, 2013
From: PARK, KYI HWAN; KIM, DONG KYU
To: GWANGJU INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2012-0054093 · May 22, 2012 · national
Continuity (1)
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