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modes that have natural frequencies close to these peaks as the physical modes. ERA is,<br />

thus, implemented on the Imote2 having limited memory.<br />

The accuracy of the developed ERA routine is now numerically examined. ERA is<br />

applied to the correlation functions estimated in section 7.2.2. The Imote2 corresponding<br />

to node 4 performs ERA and identifies the natural frequencies, damping ratios, mode<br />

shapes, modal amplitude coherences, and initial modal amplitudes. Natural frequencies,<br />

damping ratios, and mode shapes are compared with those calculated on the PC and are<br />

summarized in Table 7.3. The error in the frequency and damping ratio estimates is<br />

calculated as the difference between the estimates on the Imote2 and the PC. The<br />

estimation error in the mode shapes are investigated in terms of the Modal Assurance<br />

Criterion (MAC) defined in Eq. (7.1). As is seen in Table 7.3, the modal identification<br />

results on the Imote2 and those on the PC are identical with the precision of double data<br />

type.<br />

Table 7.3. Identification of Natural Frequencies, Damping Ratios and Mode Shapes<br />

mode<br />

Natural Frequency Damping Ratio Mode Shape<br />

f (Hz)<br />

difference<br />

(%)<br />

( – <br />

)<br />

difference 1-MAC<br />

( ) ( )<br />

1 20.1526 5.3078 3.5523 2.3794 2.2204<br />

2 41.2039 -0.4263 0.3439 0.1252 0<br />

3 61.9044 -0.1137 0.3812 -0.0944 0<br />

4 66.9313 -0.0142 0.5763 -0.0648 -2.2204<br />

5 70.4128 -0.5826 0.7909 -0.9630 2.2204<br />

6 93.8481 -0.0426 0.3118 0.7626 -2.2204<br />

7.2.4 DLV methods<br />

Implementation of the DLV methods on the Imote2 is described in this section. These<br />

implementations are validated through comparison between the results on the Imote2 and<br />

the PC.<br />

Deliberate consideration is given to the implementation of the DLV methods to<br />

accommodate the limited hardware resources on the Imote2. One of the numerical<br />

operations requiring a large amount of memory and CPU time is stress analysis under the<br />

DLV loading. If an FEM model of the entire structure needs to be stored on a smart sensor<br />

node, the model may exceed available memory. Numerical operations involved in the<br />

analysis of the FEM model, i.e., calculation of static displacements and stresses under the<br />

DLV loading, are not trivial. Instead, the linear nature of the analysis is used to simplify<br />

the process. A matrix to convert input force to stress is calculated in advance and injected<br />

to the cluster heads; rather than to run the entire structural analysis, the cluster heads<br />

simply need to compute the product of the matrix and DLVs. Furthermore, the conversion<br />

matrix needs to keep only the submatrix corresponding to the structural node and elements<br />

in the local sensor community corresponding to the cluster head. The submatrix converts<br />

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