Biomemetic Fault Detection and System Health Managment

Dear Colleagues,

Evolution has resulted in organisms and populations that can recover and adapt to adverse environmental changes. Long-term successful organisms detect and adapt to both internal and external changes. Nature has been an excellent source of analogy and inspiration for developing engineered products and systems. In this Special Issue, we seek to explore methods, technologies, and tools that support fault detection and health management of engineered systems inspired by natural organisms, populations, or biological phenomena. Examples include sensing, reasoning, and acting on system states or changes in internal and external properties. Engineered products and systems in many domains, including aerospace, infrastructure, healthcare, and food supply, face challenges in responding to or planning for internal and external events. One approach to ensure these products and systems continue to provide their intended functionality is through technologies that support fault detection and isolation and enable system health management strategies.

This Special Issue will explore what can be learned and leveraged from nature to achieve fault detection and health management strategies. As in many aspects of biologically inspired design and biomimicry, differences in the underlying phenomena and strategies represent both a challenge for using nature as an analogy and an opportunity for innovation. This Special Issue seeks submissions on research on detecting and responding to faults and changes in internal and external environments biologically inspired or based on biomimicry.

Dr. David C. Jensen
Guest Editor

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• bio-inspired
• biologically inspired
• biomimicry
• fault detection
• fault isolation
• system health management