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20202026
most citedDamage detection in operational wind turbine blades using a new approach based on machine learning

87 citations · 560 across the 49 of their papers we have counts for

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51 papers

stat.ML2026

Equation discovery with Bayesian tree-adjoining grammars

Christopher A. Lindley, Nikolaos Dervilis, Keith Worden

Tree-Adjoining Grammars (TAGs) have recently been introduced to Nonlinear System Identification (NLSI) as a means of encoding an entire model class as a finite set of grammatical r…

cs.LG2026

On Additive Gaussian Processes for Wind Farm Power Prediction

Simon M. Brealy, Lawrence A. Bull, Daniel S. Brennan +4

Population-based Structural Health Monitoring (PBSHM) aims to share information between similar machines or structures. This paper takes a population-level perspective, exploring t…

cs.LG2025

Inter-turbine Modelling of Wind-Farm Power using Multi-task Learning

Simon M. Brealy, Lawrence A. Bull, Pauline Beltrando +3

Because of the global need to increase power production from renewable energy resources, developments in the online monitoring of the associated infrastructure is of interest to re…

cs.LG2025

Regularising NARX models with multi-task learning

Sarah Bee, Lawrence Bull, Nikolaos Dervilis +1

A Nonlinear Auto-Regressive with eXogenous inputs (NARX) model can be used to describe time-varying processes; where the output depends on both previous outputs and current/previou…

cs.LG2024

When does a bridge become an aeroplane?

Tina A. Dardeno, Lawrence A. Bull, Nikolaos Dervilis +1

Despite recent advances in population-based structural health monitoring (PBSHM), knowledge transfer between highly-disparate structures (i.e., heterogeneous populations) remains a…

cs.LG2024

Towards an active-learning approach to resource allocation for population-based damage prognosis

George Tsialiamanis, Keith Worden, Nikolaos Dervilis +1

Damage prognosis is, arguably, one of the most difficult tasks of structural health monitoring (SHM). To address common problems of damage prognosis, a population-based SHM (PBSHM)…

cs.LG2024

Cost-informed dimensionality reduction for structural digital twin technologies

Aidan J. Hughes, Keith Worden, Nikolaos Dervilis +1

Classification models are a key component of structural digital twin technologies used for supporting asset management decision-making. An important consideration when developing c…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Active learning for regression in engineering populations: A risk-informed approach

Daniel R. Clarkson, Lawrence A. Bull, Chandula T. Wickramarachchi +5

Regression is a fundamental prediction task common in data-centric engineering applications that involves learning mappings between continuous variables. In many engineering applic…

cs.LG2024

Multitask learning for improved scour detection: A dynamic wave tank study

Simon M. Brealy, Aidan J. Hughes, Tina A. Dardeno +4

Population-based structural health monitoring (PBSHM), aims to share information between members of a population. An offshore wind (OW) farm could be considered as a population of…

cs.LG2024

Quantifying the value of positive transfer: An experimental case study

Aidan J. Hughes, Giulia Delo, Jack Poole +2

In traditional approaches to structural health monitoring, challenges often arise associated with the availability of labelled data. Population-based structural health monitoring s…

cs.LG2024

Anomaly Detection in Offshore Wind Turbine Structures using Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling

S. M. Smith, A. J. Hughes, T. A. Dardeno +3

Population-based structural health monitoring (PBSHM), aims to share information between members of a population. An offshore wind (OW) farm could be considered as a population of…

cs.CY2024★ 7 cited

Monitoring-Supported Value Generation for Managing Structures and Infrastructure Systems

Antonios Kamariotis, Eleni Chatzi, Daniel Straub +9

To maximize its value, the design, development and implementation of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) should focus on its role in facilitating decision support. In this position…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Quantifying the value of information transfer in population-based SHM

Aidan J. Hughes, Jack Poole, Nikolaos Dervilis +2

Population-based structural health monitoring (PBSHM), seeks to address some of the limitations associated with data scarcity that arise in traditional SHM. A tenet of the populati…

cs.LG2023

Sharing Information Between Machine Tools to Improve Surface Finish Forecasting

Daniel R. Clarkson, Lawrence A. Bull, Tina A. Dardeno +6

At present, most surface-quality prediction methods can only perform single-task prediction which results in under-utilised datasets, repetitive work and increased experimental cos…

cs.LG2023★ 7 cited

Towards a population-informed approach to the definition of data-driven models for structural dynamics

G. Tsialiamanis, N. Dervilis, D. J. Wagg +1

Machine learning has affected the way in which many phenomena for various domains are modelled, one of these domains being that of structural dynamics. However, because machine-lea…

cs.LG2023

A decision framework for selecting information-transfer strategies in population-based SHM

Aidan J. Hughes, Jack Poole, Nikolaos Dervilis +2

Decision-support for the operation and maintenance of structures provides significant motivation for the development and implementation of structural health monitoring (SHM) system…

cs.LG2023★ 15 cited

On the hierarchical Bayesian modelling of frequency response functions

T. A. Dardeno, K. Worden, N. Dervilis +2

For situations that may benefit from information sharing among datasets, e.g., population-based SHM of similar structures, the hierarchical Bayesian approach provides a useful mode…

cs.LG2023

When is an SHM problem a Multi-Task-Learning problem?

Sarah Bee, Lawrence Bull, Nikolas Dervilis +1

Multi-task neural networks learn tasks simultaneously to improve individual task performance. There are three mechanisms of multi-task learning (MTL) which are explored here for th…

math.NA2023

VpROM: A novel Variational AutoEncoder-boosted Reduced Order Model for the treatment of parametric dependencies in nonlinear systems

Thomas Simpson, Konstantinos Vlachas, Anthony Garland +2

Reduced Order Models (ROMs) are of considerable importance in many areas of engineering in which computational time presents difficulties. Established approaches employ projection-…

stat.AP2023★ 27 cited

A probabilistic approach for acoustic emission based monitoring techniques: with application to structural health monitoring

C. A. Lindley, M. R. Jones, T. J. Rogers +4

It has been demonstrated that acoustic-emission (AE), inspection of structures can offer advantages over other types of monitoring techniques in the detection of damage; namely, an…

cs.LG2023

Better Together: Using Multi-task Learning to Improve Feature Selection within Structural Datasets

S. C. Bee, E. Papatheou, M Haywood-Alexander +4

There have been recent efforts to move to population-based structural health monitoring (PBSHM) systems. One area of PBSHM which has been recognised for potential development is th…

cs.LG2023

A Meta-Learning Approach to Population-Based Modelling of Structures

G. Tsialiamanis, N. Dervilis, D. J. Wagg +1

A major problem of machine-learning approaches in structural dynamics is the frequent lack of structural data. Inspired by the recently-emerging field of population-based structura…

math.AT2022

A topological analysis of cointegrated data: a Z24 Bridge case study

Tristan Gowdridge, Elizabeth Cross, Nikolaos Dervilis +1

The paper studies the topological changes from before and after cointegration, for the natural frequencies of the Z24 Bridge. The second natural frequency is known to be nonlinear…

cs.HC2022

On the application of topological data analysis: a Z24 Bridge case study

Tristan Gowdridge, Nikolaos Dervilis, Keith Worden

Topological methods are very rarely used in structural health monitoring (SHM), or indeed in structural dynamics generally, especially when considering the structure and topology o…