Design and evaluation of a wireless sensor network based aircraft strength testing system

Sensors

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 4195-4210

  Wu, Jian ^a   Yuan, Shenfang ^a   Zhou, Genyuan ^b   Ji, Sai ^c   Wang, Zilong ^a   Wang, Yang ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b Jinangsu Teachers University of Technology   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Aircraft strength testing; Cluster star topology protocol; Undercarriage static test; Wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE STRUCTURE; APPLICATION LAYERS; DESIGN AND EVALUATIONS; STATIC TESTS; STRENGTH TESTING; STRENGTH TESTING SYSTEMS; STRUCTURE STRENGTH; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

AIRCRAFT; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; INSTRUMENTS; STRAIN GAGES; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

SENSOR NODES;

EID: 67649576734     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s90604195     Document Type: Article

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