IEE Colloquium on Condition Monitoring

[Amanda Sharkey]

IEE Colloquium/NCAF Meeting : Birmingham, UK, 22nd-23rd APRIL 1999

Condition Monitoring: machinery, external structures and health.
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Neural computing and other computational intelligence techniques can be 
usefully employed in the areas of Condition Monitoring and Fault
Diagnosis of machines and external structures (e.g bridges), and of
Health Monitoring in medicine.  Although these areas are usually
treated quite separately, they share a number of common issues and
solutions, and should benefit from a cross-fertilisation of ideas.
The speakers at this two day colloquium will provide comprehensive
reviews of recent research and techniques employed in the domains of
condition monitoring, health monitoring, and fault diagnosis; with the
underlying aim of facilitating an exchange of ideas and solutions.

Organisers: Dr Peter Cowley (Rolls-Royce), Dr Amanda Sharkey (University of
Sheffield), Dr Keith Worden (University of Sheffield)..

Provisional Programme: 22nd April

09.00-09.30 Registration and Coffee

09.30-10.00 Welcome and Introduction
                   Dr Peter Cowley
                   Rolls-Royce
               
10.00-11.00 VIBRO-ACOUSTIC CONDITION MONITORING
                   Professor Czeslaw Cempel
                   Poznan University of Technology 

11.00-11.30 Coffee and POSTER Session

11.30-12.30 THE LOS ALAMOS HEALTH MONITORING SURVEY
                   Dr Chuck Farrar
                   Los Alamos National Laboratories

12.30-13.30 Lunch

13.30-14.30 CONDITION MONITORING OF ELECTROMECHANICAL PLANT AND CIVIL
            STRUCTURES
                   Professor James Penman
                   University of Aberdeen

14.30-15.30 NOVELTY DETECTION IN JET ENGINES
                   Professor Lionel Tarassenko
                   University of Oxford.

15.30-16.00 TEA and POSTER Session

16.00-17.00 FAULT DIAGNOSIS FROM A PROCESS CONTROL PERSPECTIVE 
                   Professor Ron Patton
                   University of Hull.

Provisional Programme: 23rd April

09.30-10.30 ACOUSTIC EMISSION LOCATION USING FOUR SENSORS
                   Dr. Paul Wells
                   British Aerospace

10.30-11.00 Coffee and POSTER Session

11.00-12.00 FAULT DIAGNOSIS FOR CLOSED-LOOP DRUG INFUSION
                   Professor Derek Linkens and Dr M.F. Abbod
                   University of Sheffield

12.00-13.30 Lunch and POSTER Session

13.30-14.30 TECHNICAL AND MEDICAL CONSULTING SYSTEMS USING BAYES NETS
                   Dr Volker Tresp
                   Siemens

14.30-15.30 WHY I AM NOT A NON-BAYESIAN
                   Professor Mahesan Niranjan
                   University of Sheffield

15.30-16.00 Tea 

16.00-17.00 Panel Discussion

17.00 Close

To register for the above event (both or either of the days) please
contact: Events Office, IEE Savoy Place, London WC2R OBL, tel:
+44(0)171 240 1871 ext 2205/6 fax +44 (0)171 497 3633 or email:
events at iee.org.uk

Those interested in presenting a poster summarising research related
to the themes of condition monitoring are invited to submit an
abstract.  Abstracts will be reviewed, and authors will be notified of
acceptance.

Deadlines for poster abstracts: March 1st 1999

Method for submitting poster abstracts: email to
A.Sharkey at dcs.shef.ac.uk or send a hard copy to

Dr Amanda Sharkey,
Department of Computer Science,
Regent Court, Portobello Rd,
University of Sheffield, S1 4DP

Notification of acceptance of poster abstract: 2nd April 1999