The following text supports the lecture series AVT-220 on “Structural Health Monitoring of Military Vehicles” co-ordinated by STO-CSO. This lecture series is planned to run in Germany (BAM-Berlin) and Spain (Centro Convenciones MAPFRE –Madrid) during 2014, and Canada (Vancouver) in 2015. The author, Malcolm McGugan, is one of seven lecturers involved and this report accompanies his presentation...

Control forces in semi-active control systems are constrained by the dynamics of actuators that regulate energy transmission through variable damping and/or stiffness mechanisms. The potential benefit of the development and implementation of new semi-active control devices and applications can be determined by optimizing the controlled performance subject to the constraints of the dynamics of t...

1Department of Civil Engineering, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 2Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 3Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 4Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 Tat.Fu@...

Monitoring of semi-autonomous systems increases situational awareness and is highly applicable to small remotely piloted aircraft. The complex dynamics of aircraft flight were abstracted by modeling the system with a neural network. The neural network accurately modeled the non-faulty dynamics for comparison to the actual system. Since, the system included unmodeled lag, the residual calculatio...

Health monitoring system is an active application in pervasive and ubiquitous computing. It is an application of mobile computing technology for enhancing communication among health care workers, physicians and patients with a view to provide better health care system. Recent elevation in sensors, wireless communication and low-power integrated circuits has empowered the design of pocket size, ...