Automated operational modal analysis (OMA) is attractive and has been extensively used to replace traditional OMA, which requires much empirical observation engineers’ judgment. Still, the uncertainties on parameters spurious modes are challenging estimate under field conditions. For addressing this challenge, research proposed an automated identification approach. The approach consists of two ...

We present a moral reasoner, Moral Coppélia that combines rational ethical theory with affective states and personality traits. We, moreover, treat human autonomy in the sense of self-determination as well as making a meaningful choice. Our system combines connectionist bottom-up with utilitarian top-down approaches. Moral Coppélia can reproduce the verdicts of medical ethicists and health judg...

An attractive feature of FRP structures is that Fiber-Optic Sensors (FOS) can be naturally embedded during the production process and provide important structural information immediately after construction. Thus, FOS became very useful also for Vibration-Based Monitoring (VBM) applications. In VBM, damage identified by detecting damage-related changes in modal characteristics a structure, such ...

Research related to quality-of-life ought to benefit from efforts of researchers trained in diverse disciplines, addressing more or less similar problems, with more or less similar aims. One of the early, great philosophers of science of the twentieth century, Rudolf Carnap, said that what surprised and distressed him most about his work in philosophy of physics was that while he thought his re...