Cable Force Measurement of Bridge Cables Based on Computer Vision
Aiming at the shortcomings of high cost and difficult sensor layout of traditional bridge cable force meas-urement,as well as the difficulty of general target tracking algorithms to accurately measure the small vibration of cables under environmental excitation,a cable force measurement method based on phase motion amplification algo-rithm and diamond research sub-pixel template matching algorithm is proposed.Firstly,the vibration video of the ca-ble is collected by a smartphone,and the phase motion amplification algorithm is processed.Secondly,the cable dis-placement time-history is extracted by the sub-pixel template matching algorithm of diamond search and surface fit-ting.Finally,the vibration frequency of the cable is obtained by Fourier transform,and then the cable force is calcu-lated by using the relationship between cable force and frequency.The method is verified by the laboratory cable-stayed bridge model and the outdoor footbridge cable test,and the results show that the errors of the first-order and second-order vibration frequency and acceleration response are within 2.4%and 2.7%,respectively.Compared with the tensile force,the calculation results of the cable force in the laboratory cable model test show that with the in-crease of tensile force,the influence of bending stiffness decreases,and the deviation between the theoretical calculat-ed value and the actual value gradually decreases,which can become a new method for cable force measurement.
computer visioncable force measurementsub-pixel template matchingcable-stayed bridge cablesphase motion amplificationvibration frequency