HUMS2023, the 13^th Defence Science and Technology International Conference on Health and Usage Monitoring was held at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia from 27‑28^th February 2023, in conjunction with the 20^th Australian International Aerospace Congress (AIAC20). Also happily, the HUMS Conference was reunited with the much anticipated Australian International Airshow (AIRSHOW2023) and the Aerospace & Defence Exposition (AVALON2023).

For the HUMS Conference event series on the DSTG Website (and links to other DSTG events and publications) you may wish to bookmark : https://www.dst.defence.gov.au/events/hums-conference

This year, HUMS2023 registration included access to three Conferences under the AIAC20 umbrella:

• The 20^th Australian Aeronautical Conference (AAC)
  
  more infoThis conference brought together aeronautical professionals and students from across the region and internationally to participate in a high-quality technical program coupled with excellent networking and learning opportunities. Day three included a morning technical session and a self-guided afternoon at the Avalon International Airshow where delegates capitalised on exhibitors, and static and flying displays.
  
  
• The 12^th National Space Engineering Symposium (NSES)
  
  more infoThe Australian space sector is undergoing tremendous growth and space engineering lies at the heart of delivering this growth. With the 12th NSES included in AIAC20, delegates took the opportunity to share and hear about the latest developments in space engineering.
  
  
• The 13^th International Conference on Health and Usage Monitoring (HUMS2023)
  
  more infoFeaturing health and usage monitoring and management for aircraft and land and marine vehicles, this biennial international conference brought together industry, academia, Defence and user communities to discuss the latest developments, research and applications.
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The Conferences ran concurrently on both Day 1 & 2 (Mon 27^th Feb–Tue 28^th Feb) at Sofitel Melbourne on Collins.

The HUMS2023 Dinner, sponsored by ETMC, has long been a highlight of the conference. Tickets were available to the first 80 HUMS2023 registered delegates; 6:30pm to 10:30pm on Day 1 at The Bank on Collins.

All registrations also included complimentary access to AVALON2023, the Avalon International Airshow—Aerospace & Defence Exposition on Day 3 (Wed 1^st Mar) at Avalon. AIRSHOW2023 (public airshow) was the following weekend.

PAPERS:

BEST HUMS2023 Paper award went to "Photonic integrated circuit compatible interrogation methods for low SWaP optical fibre strain sensing" by Luke H. Broadley, Et. Al.

All our available past papers are found at the Past Papers section.

HUMS2023 DATA CHALLENGE:

DSTG prepared a Data Challenge for the HUMS2023 Conference.
The data is from DSTG's Planet Gear Fault Propagation test completed in Jan 2022. This test was to simulate the later stage of a major helicopter gearbox failure.

During the test, a seeded EDM notch in the planet gear rim was successfully initiated into a real crack which was then propagated through the full width of the gear body. A vibration dataset was available to participants of HUMS2023 Data Challenge to detect, diagnose and trend the fault and its progression.

The Data Challenge awarded the team that made the earliest convincing detection of the planet gear rim crack and the team that most accurately tracked the crack progression.

The dataset contains 526 Matlab files of 4-channel hunting tooth averaged data. The hunting tooth average is designed such that both the planet gear synchronous average and planet carrier synchronous average can be derived from it.

Optionally view the HUMS2023 Data Challenge dataset description, for a more detail on the challenge, original dataset release, and prizes.

For T&Cs, Q/A see the HUMS2023 Data Challenge page.

Congratulations to the HUMS2023 Data Challenge winner(s). As announced at the HUMS Dinner:

• The earliest convincing detection runner up, is team GPMS, consisting of Eric Bechhoefer, USA.
• The best trending capability runner up, is team KU Leuven, Belgium, consisting of Alexandre Mauricio, Rui Zhu, and Konstantinos Gryllias, each from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, LMSD.
• The winner for earliest convincing detection is team VUB-CMS, consisting of Cédric Peeters, representing Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
• The winner for best trending capability, is also VUB-CMS, Cédric Peeters.

We are very pleased with the strong response to the data challenge. Well done to everyone in the final 14 teams who each received a result and presented it. We consider this great boon for HUMS. We are also happy to announce a wider release of the dataset, and even more data (see below):

Helicopter Main Rotor Gearbox Planet Gear Fatigue Crack Propagation Test Data Released 12 July 2023!

This includes more data than was original HUMS2023 Data Challenge dataset, and it is now conditionally available to everyone. For full details see https://www.dst.defence.gov.au/our-technologies/helicopter-main-rotor-gearbox-planet-gear-fatigue-crack-propagation-test (opens in new tab).

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About HUMS Conference: The DSTG series of HUMS conferences commenced in 1999 at Fisherman's Bend, Melbourne, Australia, and is an established biennial international event featuring health and usage monitoring and management for aircraft (fixed wing, helicopters and unmanned aerial systems), land vehicles, marine vehicles, and other mechanical equipment. The conference brings together industry, academia, Defence and user communities to discuss the latest developments, research and applications.

Increasingly, platform health, at the sub-system, system or fleet level, is being managed using Condition Monitoring, Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM), prognostic or predictive maintenance approaches. All these practices rely on health management systems providing data and information for decision support, for mission assurance, availability, and safety of critical and high-value assets.

HUMS2023 topics included:

diagnostics, prognostics
condition monitoring & CBM
life and usage management
vibration and acoustic analysis
wear debris analysis
rotor track and balance
structural loads monitoring
sensors and algorithms
verification and validation
data science and data analytics applications
data management schemes
cost-benefit models
platform asset management

HUMS2023 Chair: Joanna Kappas from DSTG.

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