Research on satellite structural health monitoring based on ultrashort femtosecond grating array and artificial neural network

Abstract

The safety of spacecraft and satellite in orbit is very important, and structural health monitoring is needed. At present, the existing technology is limited by load and difficult to realize. In this paper, we propose a feasible method to detect and locate the damage of satellite by combining ultrashort femtosecond grating array inscribed on oxide-doped fiber with multilayer artificial neural network. An oxide-doped fiber with high robustness is designed, and ultrashort grating arrays are fabricated on the fiber by femtosecond laser point-by-point writing technology. The effects of impactor velocity and angle on impact response was investigated by numerical simulations and physical experiments. Subsequently, repeated impact experiments were conducted on the satellite to obtain the training dataset and testing dataset for two-dimensional convolutional neural network. The network with symmetric convention kernels has an 88.12% localization accuracy and a better performance in boundary region, and the network architecture with asymmetric convention kernels has a 90.31% accuracy and a better performance in middle region.