Damage Classi fi cation for Structural Health Monitoring Using Time-Frequency Feature Extraction and Continuous Hidden Markov Models

We propose an algorithm for the classification of structural damage based on the use of the continuous hidden Markov modeling (HMM) technique. Our approach employs HMMs to model time-frequency damage features extracted from structural data using the matching pursuit decomposition algorithm. We investigate modeling with continuous observationdensity HMMs and discuss the trade-offs involved as compared to the discrete HMM case. A variational Bayesian method is employed to automatically estimate the HMM state number and adapt the classifier for real-time use. We present results that classify structural and material (fatigue) damage in a boltedjoint structure.

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