Structural hot spot and critical location monitoring system and method
AssigneeSikorsky Aircraft Corporation
InventorsZaffir A. Chaudhry, Alan Matthew Finn, Ziyou Xiong, Hongcheng Wang, Patrick Louis Clavette
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Abstract
A method for detecting a crack in a structural component includes receiving, with a processor, signals indicative of at least one image for a critical location in the structural component; determining, with the processor, at least one shape in the at least one image, the at least one shape being representative of a structure of the critical location; representing, with the processor, at least one region around the structure into a matrix; and applying, with the processor, image processing on the matrix to detect cracks in the at least one region of the structural component.
Claims20
A method for detecting a crack in a structural component, comprising:
- receiving, with a processor, signals indicative of at least one image for a critical location in the structural component;
- determining, with the processor, at least one shape in the at least one image, the at least one shape being representative of a structure of the critical location;
- representing, with the processor, at least one region around the structure into a matrix;
- and
- applying, with the processor, image processing on the matrix to detect cracks in the at least one region of the structural component.
A system for detecting a crack in a critical location of a structural component, comprising:
- an image processing computer including a processor and memory;
- a camera that receives signals indicative of at least one image for the critical location;
- wherein the memory includes instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to:
- determine at least one shape in the at least one image, the at least one shape being representative of a structure of the critical location;
- represent at least one region around the structure into a matrix;
- and
- apply image processing on the matrix to detect cracks in the at least one region of the structural component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.