On-board Decision Making Platform for Structural Health Monitoring

Abstract

The ability to monitor the health of complex structures such as aeronautic or civil engineering structures in real time is becoming increasingly important. This process is referred to as structural health monitoring (SHM) and relies on onboard platforms comprising sensors, computational units, communication resources, and sometimes actuators. Many of such platforms have been developed within the last years but there is still a lack of structuration and knowledge exchange regarding the software and hardware architectures of such platforms. The aim of the present paper is to introduce an open hardware and open software platform dedicated to SHM within the fields of aeronautics and civil engineering. The platform presented here will be made available in an open hardware and open source framework to allow SHM researchers to run concurrent detection, localization, classification or quantification algorithms using simple interpreted languages such as Python.