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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2016
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Stratford, CT (US);
Hongcheng Wang, Farmington, CT (US);
Paul Attridge, Colchester, CT (US);
Ziyou Xiong, Wethersfield, CT (US);
Alan Matthew Finn, Hebron, CT (US);
Zaffir A. Chaudhry, South Glastonbury, CT (US);
SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Stratford, CT (US);
Abstract
A method of structural masking for progressive health monitoring of a structural component includes receiving a current image of the structural component. A processor aligns the current image and a reference image of the structural component. The processor performs a structure estimation on the current image and the reference image to produce a current structure estimate image and a reference structure estimate image. The processor generates a structural mask from the reference structure estimate image. The processor masks the current structure estimate image with the structural mask to identify one or more health monitoring analysis regions including a potential defect or damaged area appearing in the masked current structure estimate image that does not appear in the reference structure estimate image.