A Vision-Based Displacement Measurement Method of Wind Turbine Blades in Biaxial Fatigue Testing

Abstract

This paper introduces a vision-based displacement measurement method for wind turbine blades in biaxial fatigue testing. Instead of relying on existing strain data, this method collects displacement data to control the loading system. The main idea of this method is to update the pixel radius of the target point. The ratio of the pixel radius of the target point to the actual radius is used as a reference to update the displacement conversion coefficient λ of the next frame image in real-time. Through both static and dynamic experiments, the accuracy and superiority of this method have been verified, and the feasibility of using displacement instead of strain to control fatigue loading has been validated. The data demonstrates that the measurement error between the proposed method and the electronic total station remains within 10%. Compared to the results obtained by the traditional methods, the proposed method has shown significant improvement. The vision-based displacement measurement method not only ensures accuracy but also reduces the complexity of testing, providing more possibilities for fatigue testing of wind turbine blades.