Real-time condition monitoring of an uncrewed aerial vehicle using a scattering-based specklemeter interrogator
Real-time condition monitoring of an uncrewed aerial vehicle using a scattering-based specklemeter interrogator
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.
specklemeter, speckle pattern, sensing, UAV, Condition monitoring
Falak, Przemyslaw
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King-Cline, Toby
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Lee, Timothy
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Moog, Bruno
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Maniewski, Pawel
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Beresna, Martynas
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Holmes, Christopher
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15 August 2025
Falak, Przemyslaw
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Falak, Przemyslaw, King-Cline, Toby, Lee, Timothy, Moog, Bruno, Maniewski, Pawel, Entwistle, Bob, Beresna, Martynas and Holmes, Christopher
(2025)
Real-time condition monitoring of an uncrewed aerial vehicle using a scattering-based specklemeter interrogator.
CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2025, , Munich, Germany.
23 - 27 Jun 2025.
1 pp
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(doi:10.1109/CLEO/Europe-EQEC65582.2025.11109735).
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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.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 15 August 2025
Published date: 15 August 2025
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CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2025, , Munich, Germany, 2025-06-23 - 2025-06-27
Keywords:
specklemeter, speckle pattern, sensing, UAV, Condition monitoring
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/505421
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Przemyslaw Falak
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Toby King-Cline
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Timothy Lee
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Bruno Moog
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Pawel Maniewski
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Bob Entwistle
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Martynas Beresna
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