Camera-based measurement for transverse vibrations of moving catenaries in mine hoists using digital image processing techniques

This paper proposes a novel, non-contact, sensing method to measure the transverse vibrations of hoisting catenaries in mine hoists. Hoisting catenaries are typically moving cables and it is not feasible to use traditional methods to measure their transverse vibrations. In order to obtain the transverse displacements of an arbitrary point in a moving catenary, by superposing a mask image having the predefined reference line perpendicular to the hoisting catenaries on each frame of the processed image sequence, the dynamic intersecting points with a grey value of 0 in the image sequence could be identified. Subsequently, by traversing the coordinates of the pixel with a grey value of 0 and calculating the distance between the identified dynamic points from the reference, the transverse displacements of the selected arbitrary point in the hoisting catenary can be obtained. Furthermore, based on a theoretical model, the reasonability and applicability of the proposed camera-based method were confirmed. Additionally, a laboratory experiment was also carried out, which then validated the accuracy of the proposed method. The research results indicate that the proposed camera-based method is suitable for the measurement of the transverse vibrations of moving cables. (paper)