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Investigating the measurement of offshore wind turbine blades using coherent laser radar

Summers, A.; Wang, Q.; Brady, N.; Holden, R.

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Authors

A. Summers

N. Brady

R. Holden



Abstract

Large-scale offshore wind turbine blades need careful dimensional inspection at the production stage. This paper aims to establish an accurate measurement technique using Coherent Laser Radar technology combined with B-Spline point generation and alignment. Through varying the Degrees of Freedom (DoF), used for data point transformation, within the Spatial Analyser software package, erroneous inspection results generated by unconstrained blade flexing can be eradicated. The paper concludes that implementing a single B-Spline point generation and alignment method, whilst allowing transformation with DoF in X, Y and Rz, provides confidence to wind turbine blade manufacturers that inspection data is accurate. The experimental procedure described in this paper can also be applied to the precision inspection of other large-scale non-rigid, unconstrained objects.

Citation

Summers, A., Wang, Q., Brady, N., & Holden, R. (2016). Investigating the measurement of offshore wind turbine blades using coherent laser radar. Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 41, 43-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcim.2016.02.007

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 23, 2016
Online Publication Date Mar 3, 2016
Publication Date Oct 1, 2016
Deposit Date Feb 24, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 14, 2016
Journal Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Print ISSN 0736-5845
Electronic ISSN 1879-2537
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 41
Pages 43-52
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcim.2016.02.007
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1418728

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