Event | HUMS2025

The 14th Defence Science and Technology Group International Conference on Health and Usage Monitoring (HUMS2025) will be held at Melbourne & Avalon, Victoria, Australia from 24 - 25th March 2025, in conjunction with the 21st Australian International Aerospace Congress (AIAC21).

The Call for Abstracts is now open. Please submit abstracts via the Engineers Australia submission system, see the AIAC website for details. Abstracts are due end of July 2024.

The HUMS Conference will be run in conjunction with the much anticipated Australian International Airshow (AIRSHOW2025) and the Aerospace & Defence Exposition (AVALON2025).

This year HUMS2025 registration includes access to three Conferences under the AIAC21 umbrella:

• The 21st Australian Aeronautical Conference (AAC)
• The 13th National Space Engineering Symposium (NSES), and, the main event,
• The 14th International Conference on Health and Usage Monitoring (HUMS2025)

The Conferences run concurrently on both Day 1 & 2 (Mon 24th March – Tue 25th March).

All registrations also include complimentary access to AVALON2025, the Avalon International Airshow — Aerospace & Defence Exposition on Day 3 (Wed 26th Mar) at Avalon. The Avalon Airshow (AIRSHOW2025) is the following weekend, and admission is not included.

Registration fee discounts are available for Students, Retirees, and Members of Engineers Australia or Royal Aeronautical Society; morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea is provided.

Our main sponsor ETMC Technologies is also to provide additional sponsorship to cover the registration of five PhD students attending HUMS2025. PhD students who are interested in attending HUMS2025 can send their bids to the HUMS2025 Committee by email to qfgt.UHZFPbasrerapr@qrsrapr.tbi with your resume and preferably the abstract of your paper/presentation.

Hope to see you there.

About HUMS Conference

The DSTG series of HUMS conferences commenced in 1999 at Fishermans 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), and prognostic or predictive maintenance approaches. All these practices rely on health management systems providing data and information for decision support, mission assurance, availability, and safety of critical and high-value assets.

Key dates

• 22 April 2024 - Call for Abstracts Open!
• End of July 2024 - Call for Abstracts Close!
• 24 March 2025 - HUMS2025 Day One and Dinner
• 25 March 2025 - HUMS2025 Day Two and Conclusion
• 26 Mar 2025 - Day 3 - AVALON2025 - Defence and Aerospace Exhibition at Avalon

Topics

HUMS2025 topics include:

• Machine/structure health monitoring, diagnostics and prognostics
• Life and usage monitoring and management
• AI-based predictive maintenance solutions
• Text, image and voice analytics using pre-trained large AI models
• Vibration, acoustic and wear debris analyses
• Smart sensors and edge-computing technologies for HUMS
• HUMS system verification and validation
• Data science and data analytics applications to HUMS
• Platform asset management

Data Challenge for HUMS2025

We will have a new Data Challenge for HUMS2025 using a dataset generated from the Bell 206B-1 (Kiowa) main rotor gearbox test program in our Helicopter Transmission Test Facility (HTTF) at DSTG Melbourne. This time the challenge is about a rare failure mode where a fatigue crack has propagated within the gearbox casing. A vibration dataset will be provided to the participants to work out the best method for detecting and trending the propagation of the casing crack. More details will be available within this month.

HUMS2025 Committee

Chair - Dr Wenyi Wang (DSTG);
Co-Chair - Dr Nader Sawalhi (DSTG);
Other members - Bradley Bielenberg; Jordan Carroll; Riyazal Hussein; & Leonard Whitehead
Email - QFGT.UHZFPbasrerapr@qrsrapr.tbi.nh

HUMS2025 Sponsors