The invention discloses a two-channel
mooring rope tension measuring method based on a vibration
wave velocity principle. According to the method, a
vibration exciter is installed at the end of a cable to generate
transient vibration, and two acceleration sensors are arranged in the axial direction of the cable at a certain interval to form a dual-channel measurement array. After the
system collects two paths of vibration signals, the direct
propagation time difference of vibration
waves between the two sensors is accurately extracted by adopting a first arrival wave locking
algorithm based on
continuous wavelet transform. And then, according to a wave theory
physical model, and in combination with a
wavelet transform
algorithm of
wave velocity calculation, the real-time tension of the
mooring rope is finally inverted. According to the invention, the method is endowed with extremely strong anti-
environmental noise interference capability by utilizing the first-motion wave information and adopting a time-
frequency analysis algorithm, and high-precision and dynamic real-time monitoring of the tension of the
mooring rope in a complex marine environment is realized. The
system is simple in structure and convenient to install, and has important value for ocean safety.