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Vision-based autonomous bolt-looseness detection method for splice connections: Design, lab-scale evaluation, and field application
Abstract This study presents a novel autonomous vision-based bolt-looseness detection method for splice bolted connections. The method is sequentially designed with a Faster regional convolutional neural network-based bolt detector, an automatic distortion corrector, an adaptive bolt-angle estimator, and a bolt-looseness classifier. The robustness of the method is demonstrated by detecting loosened bolts in a lab-scale bolted joint under sharp capturing angles and different lighting conditions. Next, the method is applied to detect loosened bolts in a realistic joint of the Dragon Bridge in Danang, Vietnam. The bolt detector shows the training, validation, and testing accuracy of 98.85%, 97.48%, and 93%, respectively. Loosened bolts in the lab-scale and real-scale joints are well detected with precisely-estimated loosening severities, even for a sharp perspective angle. The method also shows a high level of adaptability with low-brightness images. Therefore, the method has great potentials for autonomous monitoring of in-situ bolted connections.
Highlights A newly-developed vision-based autonomous method for bolt-looseness assessment Fast, accurate, and automatic bolt detection using Faster RCNN Automatic perspective correction and adaptive bolt-angle estimation Good performance to different lighting conditions and sharp capturing angles Potentials for assessing real-scale bolted joints
Vision-based autonomous bolt-looseness detection method for splice connections: Design, lab-scale evaluation, and field application
Abstract This study presents a novel autonomous vision-based bolt-looseness detection method for splice bolted connections. The method is sequentially designed with a Faster regional convolutional neural network-based bolt detector, an automatic distortion corrector, an adaptive bolt-angle estimator, and a bolt-looseness classifier. The robustness of the method is demonstrated by detecting loosened bolts in a lab-scale bolted joint under sharp capturing angles and different lighting conditions. Next, the method is applied to detect loosened bolts in a realistic joint of the Dragon Bridge in Danang, Vietnam. The bolt detector shows the training, validation, and testing accuracy of 98.85%, 97.48%, and 93%, respectively. Loosened bolts in the lab-scale and real-scale joints are well detected with precisely-estimated loosening severities, even for a sharp perspective angle. The method also shows a high level of adaptability with low-brightness images. Therefore, the method has great potentials for autonomous monitoring of in-situ bolted connections.
Highlights A newly-developed vision-based autonomous method for bolt-looseness assessment Fast, accurate, and automatic bolt detection using Faster RCNN Automatic perspective correction and adaptive bolt-angle estimation Good performance to different lighting conditions and sharp capturing angles Potentials for assessing real-scale bolted joints
Vision-based autonomous bolt-looseness detection method for splice connections: Design, lab-scale evaluation, and field application
Huynh, Thanh-Canh (author)
2021-01-19
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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