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Main Authors: Miranda, Piedad J., Reza, Ronan, Lagos, Leonel, Telusma, Mackenson, Langton, Christine A., Moreu, Fernando
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01068
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author Miranda, Piedad J.
Reza, Ronan
Lagos, Leonel
Telusma, Mackenson
Langton, Christine A.
Moreu, Fernando
author_facet Miranda, Piedad J.
Reza, Ronan
Lagos, Leonel
Telusma, Mackenson
Langton, Christine A.
Moreu, Fernando
contents Ensuring the structural integrity of building tiles is important for public safety and the durability of urban infrastructure. This study proposes a controlled experimental framework to quantify the effect of Unmanned Aerial vehicle (UAV) induced dynamic perturbations on acoustic tap-testing reliability for facade inspection. This work explicitly analyzes vibration-induced degradation and introduces an energy-based signal correction method to preserve classification performance under motion disturbances. In addition, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is applied to process and classify wirelessly acquired acoustic data, reducing dimensionality while preserving key defect related features. A Stewart platform is used to reproduce controlled oscillatory conditions derived from UAV flight characterization, enabling systematic evaluation across multiple vibration amplitudes. Results show that classification accuracy degrades significantly under increasing perturbations, but can be restored above 98% using the proposed energy-based filtering approach.
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spellingShingle Integrating acoustic tapping with a UAV platform for tile condition classification
Miranda, Piedad J.
Reza, Ronan
Lagos, Leonel
Telusma, Mackenson
Langton, Christine A.
Moreu, Fernando
Signal Processing
Ensuring the structural integrity of building tiles is important for public safety and the durability of urban infrastructure. This study proposes a controlled experimental framework to quantify the effect of Unmanned Aerial vehicle (UAV) induced dynamic perturbations on acoustic tap-testing reliability for facade inspection. This work explicitly analyzes vibration-induced degradation and introduces an energy-based signal correction method to preserve classification performance under motion disturbances. In addition, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is applied to process and classify wirelessly acquired acoustic data, reducing dimensionality while preserving key defect related features. A Stewart platform is used to reproduce controlled oscillatory conditions derived from UAV flight characterization, enabling systematic evaluation across multiple vibration amplitudes. Results show that classification accuracy degrades significantly under increasing perturbations, but can be restored above 98% using the proposed energy-based filtering approach.
title Integrating acoustic tapping with a UAV platform for tile condition classification
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01068