Vibration distribution measurement using a high-speed multithread active vision

This study proposes a concept for multithread active vision sensing that can measure dynamically changing displacement and vibration at multiple points on civil engineering structures. In multithread active vision sensing, a high-speed camera can function virtually as multiple tracking cameras by accelerating its measurement, computation, and actuation with ultrafast viewpoint switching at millisecond level. We developed a galvano-mirror-based high-speed multithread active vision system that can switch 500 different views in a second; it functioned as 15 virtual cameras each operating at 33.3 fps to observe multiple scenes in completely different views. The experimental results for a 4-m-long truss-structure bridge model to which 15 markers were attached show that a single active vision system can observe the deformation of the bridge structure and estimate modal parameters, such as resonant frequencies and mode shapes, at a frequency on the order of dozens of Hertz.