A system is provided for actively mitigating noise caused by vibration of a thin vehicle front windshield in an occupant compartment of a vehicle. The system includes a pair of laser scanners configured to be mountable inside the vehicle occupant compartment. Each laser scanner is configurable to scan an associated initial portion of the windshield simultaneously with the other laser scanner, when the windshield is vibrating.

Disclosed is a system and method for testing a structure mode of vibration based on digital image recognition, which comprises a camera, targets, a bridge, a vertical acceleration sensor and a lateral acceleration sensor; the camera is arranged near the bridge head of the bridge; the bridge is equipped with a plurality of targets equidistantly inside guardrails on both sides; and the vertical acceleration sensor and the lateral acceleration sensor are fixedly arranged on the camera. The present application avoids the arrangement of a large number of sensors and complicated wiring in the bridge vibration detection, saves time and reduces economic cost, is convenient to operate, has relatively high precision, and has broad application prospects.

A measurement terminal includes: a storage that stores, for each of one or more inspection objects, setting information including a parameter related to a feature of an inspection and an abnormality; a processor; and a memory having instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations include: acquiring audio data of sound from an inspection object; deriving, based on the setting information of a corresponding one of the one or more inspection objects, a required time for acquiring the audio data of sound from the inspection object to be used for determining a presence or absence of the abnormality in the inspection object; and determining the presence or absence of the abnormality in the inspection object based on the audio data of sound from the inspection object for the derived required time.

A system includes at least one earpiece wherein each earpiece comprises an earpiece housing, a light source operatively connected to each earpiece housing and configured to transmit substantially coherent light toward an outer surface of a user's body, a light receiver operatively connected to the earpiece housing proximate to the light source and configured to receive reflected light from the outer surface of the user's body, and one or more processors disposed within the earpiece housing and operatively connected to the light source and light receiver, wherein one or more processors is configured to determine bone vibration measurements from the reflected light. A method of determining bone vibrations includes providing at least one earpiece, transmitting substantially coherent light toward an outer surface of a user's body using the earpiece, receiving reflected light from the outer surface of the user's body using the earpiece, and determining bone vibration measurements using the earpiece.

A system for near-surface subsurface imaging for detecting and characterizing subsurface heterogeneities comprises a non-contact acoustic source that senses a plurality of acoustic waves that travel through a surface; an instrument that outputs probing electromagnetic signals through the surface that interact and are affected by scattered signals of the acoustic waves and further senses vibrational modes of a subsurface below the surface; an imaging device that dynamically generates a time sequence of images of properties of the acoustic waves and maps elastic wave fields of the acoustic waves; and a processor that analyzes dynamic multi-wave data of the images to quantify spatial variations in the mechanical and viscoelastic properties of the subsurface.

A method for monitoring the take-off and/or landing procedure of an aircraft (1), in particular for an electrical, vertical take-off and landing aircraft (1), in which a monitoring region of a take-off and landing site (2) is monitored by at least one microphone (4, 5) of a monitoring station to detect sound emission data of an aircraft (1) taking off or landing as it approaches or departs and the detected sound emission data are transmitted from the monitoring station to an evaluation unit. The detected sound emission data are evaluated by the evaluation unit by comparing the detected sound emission data to characteristic sound emission data.

A vibration measurement device 10 includes an excitation unit (signal generator 11 and vibrator 12) for exciting an elastic wave to an inspection target S, an illumination unit (wavelength stabilized laser beam source 13 and illumination light lens 14) for performing stroboscopic illumination to a measurement region of a surface of the inspection target S using a wavelength stabilized laser beam source 13, a displacement measurement unit (speckle-sharing interferometer 15) for collectively measuring a displacement of each point of the measurement region in the back-and-forth direction by speckle interferometry or speckle-sharing interferometer. By using the wavelength stabilized laser beam source 13, an interference image can be obtained even when the inspection target S has large surface irregularities.

The defect inspection device is provided with a sound wave excitation unit for exciting a sound wave having a time waveform represented by a continuous periodic function to a prescribed position on the surface of an object to be measured, a displacement amount measurement unit for measuring a periodically varying displacement amount generated by the propagation of the sound wave from the prescribed position through the surface at at least three different phases of the periodic variation, and a periodic function acquisition unit for determining a periodic function expressing the periodic variation of the physical quantity on the basis of the displacement amount at the at least three different phases.

A portable facility failure diagnosis device using detection of radiation ultrasonic waves, comprising: an ultrasonic sensor array; a data acquisition board (DAQ board) in which an electronic circuit for acquiring ultrasonic signals at a sampling frequency of the ultrasonic signals sensed by the ultrasonic sensor array is mounted on a substrate of the data acquisition board (DAQ board); a main board in which an operation processing device that processes the ultrasonic signals received from the DAQ board is mounted on the substrate and the processed ultrasonic sound source information to a display device; a data storage medium storing data processed in the operation processing device of the main board; a display device visually displaying the data processed; and an optical camera picking up an image of a direction.

A system for monitoring parameters of an object is described. The system comprising: a monitoring unit configured for performing one or more monitoring sessions on an object and collecting data from an inspection region on the object over time and generating monitored data indicative of the inspected region, a stimulation unit configured and operable for applying at least one selected external stimulation field on the object during said one or more monitoring sessions, and a control unit configured for receiving the monitored data from the monitoring unit and determining one or more selected parameters. The stimulation unit is configured for providing said at least one selected external stimulation field directed toward said inspection region from two or more different directions. The control unit being configured for utilizing said monitored data in accordance with data on the two or more different directions of the stimulation field applied to the inspection region for determining one or more selected parameters of the object.