Monocular Vision-Based Calibration Method for the Axial and Transverse Sensitivities of Low-Frequency Triaxial Vibration Sensors With the Elliptical Orbit Excitation

The low-frequency triaxial vibration sensors have been gradually applied in many engineering fields of vibration monitoring because they can measure the multidirection vibrations simultaneously. The accurate axial and transverse sensitivities, determined by the calibration method, are the prerequisite for ensuring their measurement accuracy. Currently, the laser interferometry (LI) which is based on a single component or a tricomponent linear shaker is usually applied to calibrate these sensitivities. However, the former has to require the multiple reinstallations of the sensor and the latter cannot avoid the motion coupling caused by the shaker, these inevitably increase the calibration uncertainty. In this article, we investigate a monocular vision (MV)-based two-component shaker calibration method, which determines the axial sensitivity based on the time-spatial synchronization and transverse sensitivity at the elliptical orbit excitation. The MV method is used to measure this excitation, and a plane sensitivity model is presented to describe these sensitivities. This investigated method can simultaneously reduce the uncertainties caused by the reinstallations and motion coupling to improve the calibration accuracy. Experimental results compared with the LI and Earth's gravitation method demonstrate that the investigated method obtains the satisfactory accuracies both in axial sensitivity magnitude and phase as well as transverse sensitivity magnitude and direction calibration.

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This article investigates a monocular vision-based two-component shaker calibration method, which determines the axial and transverse sensitivities of low-frequency triaxial vibration sensors. The method reduces uncertainties caused by reinstallations and motion coupling and improves the calibration accuracy.