2022/11/03 by Ximeng Cheng, Yating Yu, Fenglong Wang +2 · 2 citations
Engineering · #Antenna (radio) #Chipless RFID #Computer science #Electrical engineering #Electronic engineering #Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks #Engineering #Full-Duplex Wireless Communications #Physics #RFID technology advancements #Resonator #Sensitivity (control systems) #Topology (electrical circuits) #Transmission (telecommunications) #Type (biology)
paper · doi:10.1109/tmtt.2022.3213655
openalex publication_date 2022/11/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
In this article, a radio frequency identification (RFID) sensor tag for real-time health monitoring of the magnitude and direction of metal surface strain is presented. The chipless RFID sensor tag is composed of metal foil and F4B substrate, which is low-cost and works stably in harsh environments for a long time. Through highly sensitive strain monitoring, the risk can be predicted in the early stage of defect generation. The proposed tag includes a C-type resonator array,Ω -type transmission line, and tag antennas. The C-type resonator has different sensitivities in the electrical length direction and width direction. Then, based on this characteristic, the resonator array creates a plurality of characteristic signatures containing strain information by optimizing the geometric parameters of the resonators. The strain information is transmitted to the tag antenna through theΩ -type transmission line to complete the wireless communication between the tag and the reader. Finally, the performance of the strain monitoring system is verified by an experimental study. The experiment shows that the average sensitivity of the resonators is −4.94 and 1.14 kHz/μ ε in the electric length and width directions, respectively. When the strain is more than 150μ ε , the relative error of magnitude is less than 12.7% and the absolute error of direction is less than 13.3°. Therefore, the proposed chipless RFID tag can monitor the amplitude and direction of strain with higher sensitivity and a simpler structure, for the key structures, such as the high-speed running gear.