Due to the widely use of composite materials in aerospace vehicles, the poor impact resistance of such materials may cause serious degradation of aircraft structures. Aiming at monitoring impact online for large scale aircraft composite structures, a wireless impact monitoring network based on digital wireless impact monitors has been developed. However, the digital localization method adopted in the network only works in single monitor, resulting in the localization confliction among multiple monitors and the false impact localization result of mid-region. In order to meet the needs of wireless impact networking monitoring, this research puts forward an energy-weighted factor based localization method with the ability of solving localization confliction and locating mid-regions. To verify the performance of the method, a wireless impact monitoring network based on a number of monitors are built and conducted on a composite unmanned aerial vehicle structure. Experimental results show that the method performs well.
doi: 10.12783/SHM2015/4