Event | HUMS 2023
The 13th Defence Science and Technology International Conference on Health and Usage Monitoring was held at Melbourne & Avalon, Victoria, Australia from 27 28th February 2023, in conjunction with the 20th Australian International Aerospace Congress (AIAC20).
HUMS2023 Data Challenge
DSTG prepared a Data Challenge for HUMS2023, to assess the best techniques to predict cracking in planet gear rims of complex gearboxes.
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 available to participants of HUMS2023 to detect, diagnose and trend the fault and its 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. The dataset can be downloaded here.
The team that made the earliest convincing detection of the planet gear rim crack and the team that most accurately tracks the crack progression were awarded.
Results from the challenge, and past papers, are available through this link: https://humsconference.com.au/Papers.html
Topics
At HUMS2023 the following topics were discussed.
- 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.
HUMS2023 Sponsors
