abstract = "Aircraft structural health monitoring (SHM) refers to
a process in which sensors are employed to assess the
current state and to predict the future state of the
structure in terms of its ageing and deterioration.
Besides preventing failures, SHM allows extending the
aircraft life cycle. Consequently, adopting SHM is
strongly motivated not only by flight safety but also
by economic considerations. Aircraft are designed for a
certain life time. If one is operated in a manner more
aggressive than expected, its life time will be
diminished. It has been difficult to monitor the
pilot's role in aircraft structural deterioration. This
article focuses on the optimisation of aircraft usage
as a new aspect of SHM, discusses our knowledge
discovery approach based on dynamic time warping and
genetic programming, and points out some of the
challenges faced in applying AI to aircraft SHM. The
proposed approach provides means to gain valuable
knowledge for decision making on cost-efficient future
usage of an aircraft fleet.",
notes = "Tampere University of Technology, Tampere