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White Papers Tracking Pitch Link Dynamic Loads with Ene

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Direct load monitoring of helicopter

rotating structural components
could provide enhanced condition
based maintenance and improved
flight regime recognition for future
health and usage monitoring
systems (HUMS). Our objective was
to design, develop, bench and flight
test a system capable of harvesting
the energy of operation to power a
wireless pitch link loads monitor.
Piezoelectric materials converted the
cyclic strains of pitch link operation into power for the microelectronics, w
strain gauge signal conditioning, analog-to-digital converter, microproces
memory, precision time-keeper, and 802.15.4 transceiver. Loads were m
bridge of bonded strain gauges, which amplified tensile and compressive
cancelled bending moments and thermal influences. The processor's emb
included energy aware operating modes, which enabled the wireless syst
its energy consumption according to the amount of energy available. The
successfully flight tested on a Bell model 412 helicopter in February 2007

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