Inspection Regime Optimisation in the Offshore Industry.

科学实验对于改善我们对周围世界的感知和理解至关重要。这些程序通常既耗时又昂贵，因此，决定在哪里以及如何收集数据是一项挑战。我们的研究领域是优化设计，关注如何在实验时分配资源，以尽可能多地了解感兴趣的主题。该项目是与澳大利亚研究理事会（ARC）研究中心通过数字工程改造能源基础设施（TIDE）的国际学术合作，该研究中心位于西澳大利亚大学（UWA）海洋研究所，是一个多学科的海洋研究中心。TIDE致力于开发基于数字工程的新研究和技术，与领先的海上工业合作伙伴合作，优化海上能源基础设施的管理。我们研究的主要目标是设计有效针对海底管道和可再生能源电缆的检测工具，以最大限度地降低故障风险（这将产生灾难性的环境后果）。我们的目标是在一个非参数的范例中，考虑到稀疏的数据和获取新的观测数据的成本，制定顺序决策的方法。我们的研究不仅对全球海上工业至关重要，而且适用于维护、医疗保健、流行病学、搜索和救援等广泛的其他问题。与西澳大利亚大学和辉固合作。

Scientific experiments are essential for improving our perception and understanding of the world around us. Often these procedures are time-consuming and expensive, and as a result, deciding where and how to gather data is challenging. Our area of research, optimal design, concerns how to allocate resources when experimenting to learn as much as possible about the subject of interest.This project is an international academic collaboration with the Australian Research Council (ARC) Research Hub for Transforming Energy Infrastructure through Digital Engineering (TIDE) based at the University of Western Australia (UWA) Oceans Institute, a multidisciplinary marine research centre. TIDE strive to create new research and technologies based on digital engineering to optimise the management of offshore energy infrastructure in consortium with leading offshore industry partners.The primary objective of our research is to design tools that efficiently target inspections of submarine pipelines and renewable energy cables to minimise the risk of failures (which would have catastrophic environmental consequences). We aim to develop methodology for sequential decision making within a nonparametric paradigm, with considerations for sparse data and costs of acquiring new observations. Our research is critical not only for the global offshore industry and applies to a wide range of other problems in maintenance, healthcare, epidemiology, search and rescue, and more.In partnership with University of Western Australia and Fugro.