Browsing by Author "Avdelidis, Nicolas Peter"

Browsing by Author "Avdelidis, Nicolas Peter"

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  • Aircraft skin inspections: towards a new model for dent evaluation 
    Lafiosca, Pasquale; Fan, Ip-Shing; Avdelidis, Nicolas Peter (British Institute of Non-destructive Testing, 2023-07-01)
    The aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) industry is gradually switching to 3D scanning for dent inspection. High-accuracy devices allow for quick and repeatable measurements, which translate into efficient ...
  • Application of NDT thermographic imaging of aerospace structures 
    Deane, Shakeb; Avdelidis, Nicolas Peter; Ibarra-Castanedo, Clemente; Zhang, Hai; Yazdani Nezhad, Hamed; Williamson, Alex A.; Mackley, Tim; Davis, Maxwell J.; Maldague, Xavier P. V.; Tsourdos, Antonios (Elsevier, 2019-02-13)
    This work aims to address the effectiveness and challenges of Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) inspection and improve the detection of defects without causing damage to the material or operator. It focuses on two types of NDT ...
  • Automated aircraft dent inspection via a modified Fourier transform profilometry algorithm 
    Lafiosca, Pasquale; Fan, Ip-Shing; Avdelidis, Nicolas Peter (MDPI, 2022-01-07)
    The search for dents is a consistent part of the aircraft inspection workload. The engineer is required to find, measure, and report each dent over the aircraft skin. This process is not only hazardous, but also extremely ...
  • Automated impact damage detection technique for composites based on thermographic image processing and machine learning classification 
    Alhammad, Muflih; Avdelidis, Nicolas Peter; Ibarra-Castanedo, Clemente; Torbali, Muhammet E.; Genest, Marc; Zhang, Hai; Zolotas, Argyrios; Maldgue, Xavier P. V. (MDPI, 2022-11-22)
    Composite materials are one of the primary structural components in most current transportation applications, such as the aerospace industry. Composite material diagnostics is a promising area in the fight against structural ...
  • Autonomous systems imaging of aerospace structures 
    Deane, Shakeb; Avdelidis, Nicolas Peter; Ibarra-Castanedo, Clemente; Zhang, Hai; Yazdani Nezhad, Hamed; Williamson, Alex A.; Maldague, Xavier P. V.; Tsourdos, Antonios (Unknown, 2018-12-31)
    Aircraft manufacturers are constantly improving their aircraft ensuring they are more cost-efficient to do this the weight of the aircraft needs to be reduced, which results in less fuel required to power the aircraft. ...
  • Autonomous systems thermographic NDT of composite structures 
    Deane, Shakeb; Avdelidis, Nicolas Peter; Yazdani Nezhad, Hamed; Williamson, A.; Zhang, H.; Tzitzilonis, Vasileios; Maldague, Xavier P. V.; Tsourdos, Antonios (SPIE, 2019-05-02)
    Transient thermography is a method used successfully in the evaluation of composite materials and aerospace structures. It has the capacity to deliver both qualitative and quantitative results about hidden defects or ...
  • CNN-fusion architecture with visual and thermographic images for object detection 
    Adiuku, Amaka; Avdelidis, Nicolas Peter; Tang, Gilbert; Plastropoulos, Angelos; Perinpanayagam, Suresh (SPIE, 2023-06-12)
    Mobile robots performing aircraft visual inspection play a vital role in the future automated aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) operations. Autonomous navigation requires understanding the surroundings to ...
  • Comparison of cooled and uncooled IR sensors by means of signal-to-noise ratio for NDT diagnostics of aerospace grade composites 
    Shakeb, Deane; Avdelidis, Nicolas Peter; Ibarra-Castanedo, Clemente; Zhang, Hai; Nezhad, Hamed Yazdani; Williamson, Alex A.; Mackley, Tim; Maldague, Xavier P. V.; Tsourdos, Antonios; Nooralishahi, Parham (MDPI, 2020-06-15)
    This work aims to address the effectiveness and challenges of non-destructive testing (NDT) by active infrared thermography (IRT) for the inspection of aerospace-grade composite samples and seeks to compare uncooled and ...
  • Defects recognition algorithm development from visual UAV inspections 
    Avdelidis, Nicolas Peter; Tsourdos, Antonios; Lafiosca, Pasquale; Plaster, Richard; Plaster, Anna; Droznika, Mark (MDPI, 2022-06-21)
    Aircraft maintenance plays a key role in the safety of air transport. One of its most significant procedures is the visual inspection of the aircraft skin for defects. This is mainly carried out manually and involves a ...
  • Development of a thermal excitation source used in an active thermographic UAV platform 
    Deane, Shakeb; Avdelidis, Nicolas Peter; Ibarra-Castanedo, Clemente; Williamson, Alex A.; Withers, Stephen; Zolotas, Argyrios; Maldague, Xavier P. V.; Ahmadi, Mohammad; Pant, Shashank; Genest, Marc; Rabearivelo, Hobivola A.; Tsourdos, Antonios (Taylor & Francis, 2022-06-03)
    This work aims to address the effectiveness and challenges of using active infrared thermography (IRT) onboard an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform. The work seeks to assess the performance of small low-powered forms ...
  • Diagnosis of composite materials in aircraft applications: towards a UAV active thermography inspection approach 
    Alhammad, Muflih; Avdelidis, Nicolas Peter; Deane, Shakeb; Ibarra-Castanedo, Clemente; Pant, Shashank; Nooralishahi, Parham; Ahmadi, Mohammad; Genest, Marc; Zolotas, Argyrios; Zanotti Fragonara, Luca; Valdes, Julio J.; Maldague, Xavier P. V. (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), 2021-04-12)
    Diagnosis and prognosis of failures for aircrafts’ integrity are some of the most important regular functionalities in complex and safety-critical aircraft structures. Further, development of failure diagnostic tools such ...
  • Digital twin analysis to promote safety and security in autonomous vehicles 
    Almeaibed, Sadeq; Al-Rubaye, Saba; Tsourdos, Antonios; Avdelidis, Nicolas Peter (IEEE, 2021-03-31)
    With the new industrial revolution of digital transformation, more intelligence and autonomous systems can be adopted in the manufacturing transportation processes. Safety and security of autonomous vehicles (AVs) have ...
  • Drone-based non-destructive inspection of industrial sites: a review and case studies 
    Nooralishahi, Parham; Ibarra-Castanedo, Clemente; Deane, Shakeb; López, Fernando; Pant, Shashank; Genest, Marc; Avdelidis, Nicolas Peter; Maldague, Xavier P. V. (MDPI, 2021-09-29)
    Using aerial platforms for Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) of large and complex structures is a growing field of interest in various industries. Infrastructures such as: buildings, bridges, oil and gas, etc. refineries ...
  • Enhanced infrared image processing for impacted carbon/glass fiber-reinforced composite evaluation 
    Zhang, Hai; Avdelidis, Nicolas Peter; Osman, Ahmad; Ibarra-Castanedo, Clemente; Sfarra, Stefano; Fernandes, Henrique; Matikas, Theodore E.; Maldague, Xavier P. V. (MDPI, 2017-12-26)
    In this paper, an infrared pre-processing modality is presented. Different from a signal smoothing modality which only uses a polynomial fitting as the pre-processing method, the presented modality instead takes into account ...
  • Evaluation and selection of video stabilization techniques for UAV-based active infrared thermography application 
    Pant, Shashank; Nooralishahi, Parham; Avdelidis, Nicolas Peter; Ibarra-Castanedo, Clemente; Genest, Marc; Deane, Shakeb; Valdes, Julio J.; Zolotas, Argyrios C.; Maldague, Xavier P. V. (MDPI, 2021-02-25)
    nmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) that can fly around an aircraft carrying several sensors, e.g., thermal and optical cameras, to inspect the parts of interest without removing them can have significant impact in reducing ...
  • Fusion insights from ultrasonic and thermographic inspections for impact damage analysis 
    Torbali, M. Ebubekir; Alhammad, Muflih; Zolotas, Argyrios; Avdelidis, Nicolas Peter; Ibarra-Castanedo, Clemente; Maldague, Xavier (AIAA, 2023-06-08)
    Low energy impact damage in composite materials may be more concerning than it appears visually, often requiring a detailed examination for accurate assessment to ensure safe and sustainable operation. Non-destructive ...
  • Impact modelling and a posteriori non-destructive evaluation of homogeneous particleboards of sugarcane bagasse 
    Zhang, Hai; Sfarra, Stefano; Sarasini, Fabrizio; Fiorelli, Juliano; Peeters, Jeroen; Avdelidis, Nicolas Peter; de Lucca Sartori, Diogo; Ibarra-Castanedo, Clemente; Perilli, Stefano; Mokhtari, Yacine; Tirillò, Jacopo; Maldague, Xavier P. V. (2018-01-12)
    With a view to gaining an in-depth assessment of the response of particleboards (PBs) to different in-service loading conditions, samples of high-density homogeneous PBs of sugarcane bagasse and castor oil polyurethane ...
  • Inspection of aircraft wing panels using unmanned aerial vehicles 
    Malandrakis, Konstantinos; Savvaris, Al; Gonzalez Domingo, Jose Angel; Avdelidis, Nicolas Peter; Tsilivis, Panagiotis; Plumacker, Florence; Zanotti Fragonara, Luca; Tsourdos, Antonios (IEEE, 2018-09-03)
    In large civil aircraft manufacturing a time-consuming post-production process is the non-destructive inspection of wing panels. This work aims to address this challenge and improve the defects' detection by performing ...
  • Inspection of aircraft wing panels using unmanned aerial vehicles 
    Tzitzilonis, Vasileios; Malandrakis, Konstantinos; Zanotti Fragonara, Luca; Gonzalez Domingo, Jose Angel; Avdelidis, Nicolas Peter; Tsourdos, Antonios; Forster, Kevin (MDPI, 2019-04-17)
    In large civil aircraft manufacturing, a time-consuming post-production process is the non-destructive inspection of wing panels. This work aims to address this challenge and improve the defects’ detection by performing ...
  • Multi-label classification algorithms for composite materials under infrared thermography testing 
    Alhammad, Muflih; Avdelidis, Nicolas Peter; Ibarra Castanedo, Clemente; Maldague, Xavier; Zolotas, Argyrios; Torbali, M. Ebubekir; Genestc, Marc (Taylor and Francis, 2022-10-14)
    The key idea in this paper is to propose multi-labels classification algorithms to handle benchmark thermal datasets that are practically associated with different data characteristics and have only one health condition ...