noise smoothing for structural vibration test signals using an improved wavelet thresholding technique噪声平滑结构振动测试信号使用一种改进的小波阈值技术.pdfVIP

Sensors 2012, 12, 11205-11220; doi:10.3390/s120811205 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Noise Smoothing for Structural Vibration Test Signals Using an Improved Wavelet Thresholding Technique Ting-Hua Yi 1,*, Hong-Nan Li 1 and Xiao-Yan Zhao 2 1 Faculty of Infrastructure Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, China; E-Mail: hnli@ 2 Shanghai Municipal Engineering Design Institute (group) Co. Ltd., Shanghai 200092, China; E-Mail: iccee@ * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: yth@; Tel./Fax: +86-411-8470-6050. Received: 11 June 2012; in revised form 6 August 2012 / Accepted: 6 August 2012 / Published: 10 August 2012 Abstract: In structural vibration tests, one of the main factors which disturb the reliability and accuracy of the results are the noise signals encountered. To overcome this deficiency, this paper presents a discrete wavelet transform (DWT) approach to denoise the measured signals. The denoising performance of DWT is discussed by several processing parameters, including the type of wavelet, decomposition level, thresholding method, and threshold selection rules. To overcome the disadvantages of the traditional hard- and soft-thresholding methods, an improved thresholding technique called the sigmoid function-based thresholding scheme is presented. The procedure is validated by using four benchmarks signals with three degrees of d