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most citedA probabilistic risk-based decision framework for structural health monitoring

60 citations · 133 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

eess.SP2026

Latent variable models for simultaneous EOV identification and removal in population-based SHM

M. D. Champneys, M. R. Jones, A. J. Hughes +3

The robust treatment of environmental and operational variability (EOV) is an open challenge in population-based structural health monitoring (PBSHM). The difficulty is compounded…

cs.LG2026

Transfer learning via interpolating structures

T. A. Dardeno, A. J. Hughes, L. A. Bull +3

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

stat.ML2024

On the topology and geometry of population-based SHM

Keith Worden, Tina A. Dardeno, Aidan J. Hughes +1

Population-Based Structural Health Monitoring (PBSHM), aims to leverage information across populations of structures in order to enhance diagnostics on those with sparse data. The…

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

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.AI2023

Towards risk-informed PBSHM: Populations as hierarchical systems

Aidan J. Hughes, Paul Gardner, Keith Worden

The prospect of informed and optimal decision-making regarding the operation and maintenance (O&M) of structures provides impetus to the development of structural health monitoring…

cs.LG2022

Mitigating sampling bias in risk-based active learning via an EM algorithm

Aidan J. Hughes, Lawrence A. Bull, Paul Gardner +2

Risk-based active learning is an approach to developing statistical classifiers for online decision-support. In this approach, data-label querying is guided according to the expect…

cs.LG2022

Improving decision-making via risk-based active learning: Probabilistic discriminative classifiers

Aidan J. Hughes, Paul Gardner, Lawrence A. Bull +2

Gaining the ability to make informed decisions on operation and maintenance of structures provides motivation for the implementation of structural health monitoring (SHM) systems.…

cs.LG2022★ 19 cited

On robust risk-based active-learning algorithms for enhanced decision support

Aidan J. Hughes, Lawrence A. Bull, Paul Gardner +2

Classification models are a fundamental component of physical-asset management technologies such as structural health monitoring (SHM) systems and digital twins. Previous work intr…

cs.LG2021★ 45 cited

On risk-based active learning for structural health monitoring

A. J. Hughes, L. A. Bull, P. Gardner +3

A primary motivation for the development and implementation of structural health monitoring systems, is the prospect of gaining the ability to make informed decisions regarding the…

stat.AP2021★ 60 cited

A probabilistic risk-based decision framework for structural health monitoring

Aidan J. Hughes, Robert J. Barthorpe, N. Dervilis +2

Obtaining the ability to make informed decisions regarding the operation and maintenance of structures, provides a major incentive for the implementation of structural health monit…