Underground three-dimensional displacement measurement system and method based on double mutual inductance equivalent voltage

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12474155-B2
Application number	US-202118024979-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 18, 2021
Priority date	Sep 8, 2020
Publication date	Nov 18, 2025
Grant date	Nov 18, 2025

Abstract

Disclosed are an underground displacement three-dimensional measurement system and method based on a double mutual inductance voltage contour. The system comprises an on-site measuring device and a remote monitoring system. The on-site measuring device is mainly formed by serially connecting N sensing units and an underground displacement information lumping unit by means of a power line and a communication line. The N sensing units are serially connected, and then are connected between an underground immovable layer and the ground. Each sensing unit comprises a PVC sleeve, a cylindrical air-core coil, a cylindrical magnetic core coil, and a PCB. Two adjacent sensing units form a measurement unit, and relative horizontal displacement and relative vertical displacement are measured by means of cooperation between the cylindrical air-core coil and the cylindrical magnetic core coil of a relative reference unit and the cylindrical air-core coil of the relative displacement unit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An underground displacement three-dimensional measurement system based on a double mutual inductance equivalent voltage, comprising an on-site measuring device and a remote monitoring system, the on-site measuring device and the remote monitoring system are connected via a wireless communication network, wherein the on-site measuring device comprises N integrated underground displacement measurement sensing units and one underground displacement information lumping unit connected in series by means of a power line and a communication line, the N integrated underground displacement measurement sensing units are serially connected and then are connected between an underground immovable layer and a ground, wherein:
each of the integrated underground displacement measurement sensing units comprises an external PVC sleeve, a cylindrical air-core coil, a cylindrical magnetic core coil, and a PCB, the cylindrical air-core coil and the cylindrical magnetic core coil are both installed in the PVC sleeve, the cylindrical air-core coil is located around an inner surface of the PVC sleeve, the cylindrical magnetic core coil is located in the middle of the cylindrical air-core coil, the cylindrical air-core coil, the cylindrical magnetic core coil, and the PVC sleeve share a same central axis, and the PCB is arranged in a middle portion of the PVC sleeve in an axial direction.

2 . The underground displacement three-dimensional measurement system based on the double mutual inductance equivalent voltage according to claim 1 , wherein the PCB is integrated with modules comprising an MCU, a sine wave generating circuit, a double mutual inductance voltage measuring circuit, an attitude measuring circuit, and a 485 communication circuit, the cylindrical air-core coil and the cylindrical magnetic core coil are connected to a power supply respectively through a first analog switch and a second analog switch, the cylindrical air-core coil is connected to a first sine wave generating circuit and the double mutual inductance voltage measuring circuit through the first analog switch, the double mutual inductance voltage measuring circuit is connected to the MCU through an A/D conversion circuit, the cylindrical magnetic core coil is connected to a second sine wave generating circuit through the second analog switch, the first sine wave generating circuit, the second sine wave generating circuit, and the attitude measuring circuit are all connected to the MCU directly, the attitude measuring circuit and the MCU are both connected to the power supply, and the MCU is connected to a host of the underground displacement information lumping unit through a 485 communication bus.

3 . The underground displacement three-dimensional measurement system based on the double mutual inductance equivalent voltage according to claim 1 , wherein the underground displacement information lumping unit comprises a host, the host comprises an MCU main control circuit, a 485 bus driver module, a GPS measurement module, and a remote communication module, the MCU main control circuit is connected to the 485 bus driver module, the GPS measurement module, and the remote communication module, the MCU main control circuit connects and is configured to monitor three modules of the 485 bus driver module, the GPS measurement module, and the remote communication module, and the MCU main control circuit is configured to send a control signal to each underground displacement measurement integrated sensing unit through 485 communication bus and is configured to send measurement information of underground deformation to the host computer of the remote monitoring system through the remote communication module.

4 . The underground displacement three-dimensional measurement system based on the double mutual inductance equivalent voltage according to claim 1 , wherein the on-site measuring device and the remote monitoring system are connected through a wireless network for wireless communication, and a measurement result of the on-site measuring device is configured to transmitt to the remote monitoring system through the wireless network.

5 . The underground displacement three-dimensional measurement system based on the double mutual inductance equivalent voltage according to claim 1 , wherein the remote monitoring system comprises a remote receiving device and an upper computer, one end of the remote receiving device is connected to a receiving antenna and the other end of the remote receiving device is connected to the upper computer, and the upper computer is configured to obtain geotechnical deformation conditions and specific coordinate values from a ground surface to a deep underground in a measurement area through conversion and is configured to draw and achieve three-dimensional distributed remote measurement of the geotechnical deformation conditions from the ground surface to the deep underground.

6 . The underground displacement three-dimensional measurement system based on the double mutual inductance equivalent voltage according to claim 1 , wherein two adjacent integrated underground displacement measurement sensing units are configured to form one measurement unit, the lower integrated underground displacement measurement sensing unit is configured to treat as a relative reference unit, the upper integrated underground displacement measurement sensing unit is configured to treat as a relative displacement unit, in each measurement unit, the cylindrical air-core coil and the cylindrical magnetic core coil of the relative reference unit and the cylindrical air-core coil of the relative displacement unit are configured to cooperatively measure relative horizontal displacement and relative vertical displacement between two adjacent integrated underground displacement measurement sensing units, wherein the relative horizontal displacement and relative vertical displacement are treated as a relative displacement and direction measurement result of a measurement unit.

7 . An underground displacement three-dimensional measurement method comprising the double mutual inductance voltage contour applied to the underground displacement three-dimensional measurement system according to claim 1 , comprising:
controlling each integrated underground displacement measurement sensing unit through the underground displacement information lumping unit; controlling each measurement unit formed by two adjacent integrated underground displacement measurement sensing units one by one from bottom to top to measure in sequence; obtaining a relative displacement and direction measurement result of each measurement unit through double mutual inductance voltage contour modeling, least squares curve fitting, and sensing attitude analyzing; comprehensively accumulating the relative displacement and direction measurement results of the measurement units; and achieving three-dimensional distributed flexible measurement of a deformation of rock-soil mass from a surface to a deep underground.

8 . The underground displacement three-dimensional measurement method based on the double mutual inductance equivalent voltage according to claim 7 , wherein the on-site measuring device is buried between an immovable layer of the rock-soil mass to be measured and the ground through drilling, two adjacent integrated underground displacement measurement sensing units form one measurement unit, the lower integrated underground displacement measurement sensing unit in the measurement unit is treated as a relative reference unit, the upper integrated underground displacement measurement sensing unit is treated as a relative displacement unit, the measuring is carried out according to the following steps to measure a type I mutual inductance voltag

Assignees

• Univ Jiliang China

Inventors

• Shentu Nanying
• Li Qing
• Shi Ge
• Wang Feng
• Wang Sheng

Classifications

• G01C2009/064

  inductive · CPC title

• E21B47/0228

  using electromagnetic energy or detectors therefor · CPC title

• G01C9/06

  Electric or photoelectric indication or reading means · CPC title

• G01V3/28

  using induction coils · CPC title

• G01B2210/58

  Wireless transmission of information between a sensor or probe and a control or evaluation unit · CPC title