Structural health monitoring plays an increasingly significant role in detecting damages for
large and complex structures to ensure their serviceability and sustainability. Optimal sensor …

This article presents in a unified way, the various optimization criteria used by researchers
for optimal placement of piezoelectric sensors and actuators on a smart structure. The article …

This paper addresses problems on the structural design of large-scale control systems. An
efficient and unified framework is proposed to select the minimum number of manipulated …

Much of the recent and past work in the area of smart materials and structures has focused
on analysis of actuators and actively controlled systems. Although many sophisticated …

This paper considers the optimal placement of collocated piezoelectric actuator–sensor
pairs on flexible beams using a model-based linear quadratic regulator (LQR) controller. A …

Written by a highly respected expert in the field, this book provides the first comprehensive
coverage of SHM. It reviews the various types of sensors currently used in SHM and …

This paper presents a novel generalized framework for optimal sensor placement design for
structural health monitoring (SHM) applications using Bayes risk as the objective function …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have several important applications, both in research and
domestic use. Generally, their main role is to collect and transmit data from an ROI (region of …

The NASA Morphing Project seeks to develop and assess advanced technologies and
integrated component concepts to enable efficient, multi-point adaptability in air and space …

We develop a novel sensor placement method that maximizes monitoring performance
while minimizing deployment cost. Our method integrates a reduced order model and multi …