Recognition of abnormal vibrational responses of signposts using the Two-dimensional Geometric Distance and Wilcoxon test

In expressway companies, workers have been impacting signposts using wooden hammers and estimating the degree of the corrosion by listening to the sound. In order to automate this, we have been developing software that recognizes an abnormal impact vibrational response due to corrosion. This software extracts sonograms from impact vibrational waves using the LPC spectrum analysis, and matches images of the sonogram between a standard and an input impact vibrations using the Two-dimensional Geometric Distance. Then, the software distinguishes the abnormality of the input impact vibration using Wilcoxon rank-sum test. We have measured the impact vibrations of five normal signposts and five abnormal signposts, and carried out the automatic recognition experiments. As a result, the software has recognized correctly in all cases. We have verified the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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