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Eddy Current Defect Tomography Using a Hybrid Binary Vector Recovery Algorithm
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This article presents an eddy current tomography framework for imaging defects in metal structures. The tomography problem is formulated as a linear inverse problem with a binary solution vector. A Bayesian approach is utilized, incorporating a binary-inducing prior and determining the posterior probability conditioned on the measurements. Since recovering binary vectors from underdetermined linear measurements is NP-hard, an approximation to the true posterior is obtained by minimizing a Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence. Alternatively, a convex optimization approach relaxes the binary constraint and applies alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to compute a solution. The convergence of both algorithms is proven. To improve computational efficiency, the two algorithms are cascaded and augmented with a decomposition technique to form a hybrid algorithm. The proposed framework is validated experimentally with a prototype eddy current sensing probe, demonstrating the ability to image defects as small as 1 mm at various depths using a sensor array with 4 mm spacing.
Keywords:
Binary vector recovery
compressed sensing
eddy current tomography
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