Total Variation Deconvolution of

Raman Distributed
Temperature Sensing Signals
Jesse de Pelegrin, João P. Bazzo, Igor B. V. da Costa, Cicero Martelli, Daniel R.Pipa and Jean C. C. da Silva
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Graduate Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering

 Motivation
➢ The Distributed Temperature Sensor (DTS) has been used in several
researches studies in the field of industrial applications.

➢ Commercial DTS equipments have a spatial resolution of one meter,

which makes it difficult to employ in small and medium structures.

➢ The reduced dimensions and the immunity electromagnetic www.data.com.br

interference of the optical fibers are characteristics fundamental in

application on electric machines.

➢ The number and importance of electric machines in the industrial

environment

➢ Temperature monitoring on electrical machines in real time and long

distance.
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 Outline

✓ RDTS System Model Identification

✓ Deconvolution Algorithm
✓ Experimental Setup
✓ Results and Discussions
✓ Conclusion

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 RDTS System Model Identification
The RDTS system model was constructed from the techniques of the identification of linear
systems.
It was considered that the RDTS system is a linear time-invariant (LTI) system.

Signal convolution response:

Real temperature profile
Laplace transform

Impulse response DTS system

The system identification consists of estimating the poles and zeros of the function.
The poles (βi) and zeros (𝞪i) of the function H(s) were estimated:

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 Deconvolution Algorithm
The deconvolution of the signal starts from the discretization of

It is rewritten using matrix notation:

Reconstructed Signal Finite difference matrix

Regulation parameter that controls the
Vector formed by sensor data, DTS measurement sensitivity of the noise
Vector representing the temperature profile
The matrix of sensitivity, formed from the DTS impulse response

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 Experimental Setup
To validate the proposed deconvolution system by total variation, an experiment was set up.
2.30m

➢ The resistance heats the aluminum plate, and

1.80m

the shape of plate makes it possible to have

different lengths between the ends.
➢ Spacings of approximately 5 cm between the
fibers and the total length of optical fiber 100
meters.
➢ Buffer of approximately 3 meters is attached
to the ends of the plate to ensure that the
measured value returns to the ambient
temperature.

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 RDTS System and Reconstructed Signal With Algorithm
This figure show the total length optical fiber by temperature.
The ambient temperature during data acquisition was 28 degrees Celsius.
It should be noted that due to the spatial resolution of one meter of the RDTS system, the temperature at
the smaller lengths is lower than the reference temperatures.

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 Thermal Image and Reconstructed Image

To measure the plate temperature, a Fluke® Ti25 thermal imager was The reconstructed temperature values are used to generate a
used. To validate the measurements of the image, a type K thermal image of the designed board using SolidWorks® software.
thermocouple probe sensor with Fluke ® 754 was used.
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 Conclusion
✓ We present the application of total variation in improving the spatial
resolution of commercial RDTS systems.

✓ Through the temperature signal measured by the equipment, a signal

reconstruction algorithm was used.

✓ By the deconvolution of the measured signal, the temperature value was

corrected, and the error was approximately 0.2%

✓ The resolution of the RDTS system (which was previously 1 m), can be now
improved up to 15 cm.

✓ A problem with this model is that for each new structure that is installed, a
new calibration must be performed.

➢ In the future we are working to implement this optical fiber in small and
medium systems such as induction motor, where we started development,
as can be seen in these figures.
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 Acknowledgements

THANK YOU!

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