HUMS2025 Proceedings

		14^th Defence Science & Technology (DST) International Conference on Health and Usage Monitoring
		HUMS2025 Proceedings

Paper or presentation by Session

Session	Title	Author	Paper or Presentation

Machine Condition Monitoring Chairperson: Wenyi Wang	Keynote: HUMS Enabling Predictive Maintenance: Transforming Commercial Helicopter Operations	Eric Bechhoefer Green Power Monitoring Systems, International Inc (GPMS), USA	presentation only
	Automating Vibration Analysis: Optimized Multi-Delay Filters for Improved Signal Separation	Cédric Peeters¹, Jérôme Antoni², Jan Helsen¹ 1. Department of Applied Mechanics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium 2. Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, LVA, EA677, 69621 Villeurbanne, France	view paper
	Detecting planet gear crack propagation using FRESH filters	Rik Vaerenberg^1,2, Alexandre Ricardo Mauricio^1,2, Konstantinos Gryllias^1,2 1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 300, Box 2420, 3001 Leuven, Belgium 2. Flanders Make@KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium	view paper
	Automatic peak detection algorithm for gearbox monitoring	Diebold Jean-Frédéric¹, Leiber Maxime¹, El Badaoui Mohammed^1,2 1. Safran Tech, Rue des jeunes Bois, 78117 Châteaufort, France 2. Jean-Monnet Saint-Etienne Univ., LASPI Lab., F-42023, Saint-Etienne, France	view paper
	Treatment of Erroneous Interference Effects from Post processed Planet Gear Vibration Signals	Nader Sawalhi¹, Wenyi Wang¹, David Blunt¹ 1. Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG), Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia Correpondance: nader.sawalhi@defence.gov.au; wenyi.wang@defence.gov.au; david.blunt@defence.gov.au	view paper

HUMS2025 Data Challenge Session 1 Chairperson: Nader Sawalhi Session 2 Chairperson: Wenyi Wang	The HUMS2025 Data Challenge Dataset	Wenyi Wang¹, David Blunt¹ and Nader Sawalhi¹ 1. Platforms Division, Defence Science and Technology Group, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	view paper view presentation (updated 4 Apr 2025)
	HUMS2025 Data Challenge Team Submissions (pt 1 & 2)	GPMS	view submission
		LMCO	view submission
		Team A	view submission
		KU Leuven Condition Monitoring	view submission
		UNSW TSCM Group	view submission
		Priori	view submission
		VU Brussel (HUMS2025 Data Challenge Runner-Up)	view submission
		NRC AERO SMPL	view submission
		MathWorks Australia	view submission
		INSA Lyon (HUMS2025 Data Challenge Winner)	view submission
		Note: Some teams did not grant permission to publish their submission
	Benchmark Analyses of the HUMS2025 Data Challenge Dataset	Nader Sawalhi¹, Wenyi Wang¹ and David Blunt¹ 1. Platforms Division, Defence Science and Technology Group, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	view presentation (updated 4 Apr 2025)

Sensors, SHM & HUMS Chairperson: Garerth Forbers	An Improved wireless vibration sensor for real time, in-situ rotorcraft gearbox condition monitoring	George Jung¹, David Blunt¹, Riyazal Hussein¹ and Samira Simons¹ 1. Platforms Division, Defence Science and Technology Group, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	view paper
	Improving the extreme temperature measurement capability of FBG sensors encapsulated in low thermal expansion materials	Gerard Natividad¹, Julian McIntyre¹, Suzana Turk¹, Daniel Bitton¹, Alison Lockley², Trent Schultz², David Hartley² and Chris Wood² 1. Defence Science and Technology Group, Fisherman's Bend, Victoria, Australia 2. Defence Science and Technology Group, Eagle Farm, Queensland, Australia	view paper
	A review of the improvements made to the F/A-18F and EA-18G fatigue tracking system: Individual Aircraft Tracking with a safe life philosophy	Matthew Phillips¹ and Tony Mills¹ 1. Platforms Division, Defence Science and Technology Group, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	view paper
	Architecture for a Low Cost, Light Weight HUMS for Commercial Helicopters	Eric Bechhoefer GPMS International Inc, 93 Pilgrim Park Rd. Waterbury, VT 05676, USA	view paper
	Formulation and Validation of an Aircraft Health Monitoring Tool (AHMT) for the MH-60R/S Fleet	Katie G. Krohmaly¹, Cara M. Johnson¹, Jonathan Wiley² 1. US Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, 9500 MacArthur Boulevard, W. Bethesda, MD 20817 USA 2. US Naval MH-60 Fleet Support Team, Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, NC 28533 USA	view paper

Diagnostics, Prognostics, ODA Chairperson: Zhongxiao Peng	Understanding the Influence of the Load Zone on the Vibrations Excited by Discrete Faults in Rolling Element Bearings	Iain Epps Mobolo Technology Ltd	presentation only
	Comparison of Bearing Spall and Fault Diagnostics using Inline Debris Monitoring	Hassan Mahmoud¹, Nicholas Breeuwer¹, Pooja Suresh¹ 1. Gastops Ltd, 1011 Polytek Street, Gloucester, ON, K1J 9J3, Canada	view paper
	Fluorescence Spectroscopy for inline oil contamination and condition monitoring to improve HUMS	Nicholas Breeuwer¹, Pooja Suresh¹, Hassan Mahmoud¹, 1. Gastops Ltd, 1011 Polytek Street, Gloucester, ON, K1J 9J3, Canada	view paper
	Long Short-Term Memory algorithm for prediction of build condition in Laser Directed Energy Deposition of Ti-6Al-4V	Timothy Herzog RMIT University, Melbourne	oral presentation only

Day 2

Machine Condition Monitoring Chairperson: Nader Sawalhi	Keynote: Methodologies for the design of health indicators	Jérôme Antoni Institut National des Sciences Appliquèes de Lyon INSA-Lyon	presentation only
	Explainable Anomaly Detection with Neural Networks for Gear Condition Monitoring	N. Herwig¹, P. Borghesani¹, W. Smith¹, Z. Peng¹ and J. Antoni^1,2 1. School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Australia 2. Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, LVA, UR677, 69621 Villeurbanne, France	view paper
	A Spatiotemporal Data Fusion Technique for Aircraft Environmental and Operational Condition (EOC) Representation	Joelle W.Y. Chia, Wim J.C. Verhagen, Jose M. Silva and Ivan S. Cole RMIT University, Melbourne	view paper
	Blind peak detection in vibration spectra using Region-based Convolutional Neural Networks	Georgios Protopapadakis¹, Pietro Borghesani¹, Cédric Peeters¹, Nico Herwig², Wade Smith², Zhongxiao Peng², Jan Helsen¹ 1. Acoustics and Vibrations Research Group (AVRG), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, Brussels, 1050, Belgium 2. School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW-2052, Australia	view paper
	New applications of cepstrum analysis in machine diagnostics	R.B. Randall*, W.A. Smith, P. Borghesani, Z. Peng School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Australia Correponding author: b.randall@unsw.edu.au	view paper

Data Science & LLM Applications Chairperson: : A Prof. Pietro Borghesani – UNSW	Systems of Agents	Nathan Rigoni Lockheed Martin Australia	presentation only
	Using Natural Language Processing (NLP), a Machine Learning (ML) technique, to classify maintenance dataset	Eric Lee Platforms Division, Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG), Melbourne	oral presentation only
	A Spatiotemporal Data Fusion Technique for Aircraft Environmental and Operational Condition (EOC) Representation	Ann-Kathrin Koschlik¹, Fiete Rauscher², Michael J. Scott³, Salvatore Merola⁴, Hendrik Meyer¹, Wim Verhagen³, Pier Marzocca³, Michele Guida⁴, Florian Raddatz¹, Gerko Wende¹ 1. Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Institute of Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul, Hein-Saß-Weg 2, 21129 Hamburg, Germany 2. Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Institute of System Architectures in Aeronautics, Hein-Saß-Weg 22, 21129 Hamburg, Germany 3. Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, 124 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Australia 4. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples, Italy	view paper
	Wildfire detection information management using sensor fusion	Rohan Kapoor Engineers Australia, IEEE, and Institute of Navigation	oral presentation only
	Mini-panel discussion on data science application in HUMS for academia and industry (Kostis of KU-Leuven & Nathan of LMCO)

Data Science/Analytics Chairperson: Nathan Rigoni	Insights from using a rapidly deployable, wireless data acquisition system for non-intrusive flight test instrumentation.	Sam Mancarella & Pieter Penhall MEMKO Pty Ltd	presentation only
	Mode Shape Identification Using Graph Neural Networks for Aircraft Structure Design	Sitthichart Tohmuang RMIT University, Melbourne	presentation only
	Stabilizing Extended Dynamic Mode Decomposition using Parsimonious Mode Selection Criterion	Arpan Das RMIT University, Melbourne	presentation only

Industry Tech Demonstration Presentations Chairperson: Wenyi Wang	Oral presentations only: Warsash Scientific Pty Ltd (Derek Huxley) – GelSight surface precision inspection technology for aerospace applications and Polytec laser Doppler vibrometer technology for structural health monitoring ONYX InSight Australia Pty Ltd (Jiaxing Perry Chan) – Development of lubricant and vibration integrated online condition monitoring platform Gastops (Branden West) –Revolutionizing Vehicle Health Management: Gastops' Innovative Solutions for Optimizing Availability, Safety, and Maintenance of Complex Rotating Equipment Braemac (JK Han) – Health Monitoring for Large-scale Aerospace Test Facilities GPMS-VT (Eric Bechhoefer) – Demonstration of GPMS Foresight MX HUMS for rotorcraft applications

Updated 2025.04.04
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14th Defence Science & Technology (DST) International Conference on Health and Usage Monitoring

HUMS2025 Proceedings

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14^th Defence Science & Technology (DST) International Conference on Health and Usage Monitoring