Annoyance of helicopter impulsive noise

Psychoacoustic studies of helicopter impulsive noise were conducted in order to qualify additional annoyance due to this feature and to develop physical impulsiveness descriptors to develop impulsivity correction methods. The currently proposed descriptors and methods of impulsiveness correction are compared using a multilinear regression analysis technique. It is shown that the presently recommended descriptor and correction method provides the best correlation with the subjective evaluations of real helicopter impulsive noises. The equipment necessary for data processing in order to apply the correction method is discussed

Tuning and comparing fault diagnosis methods for aeronautical systems via kriging-based optimization

Many approaches address fault detection and isolation (FDI) based on analytical redundancy. To rank them, it is necessary to define performance indices and realistic sets of test cases on which they will be evaluated. For the ranking to be fair, each of the methods under consideration should have its internal parameters tuned optimally. The work presented uses a combination of tools developed in the context of computer experiments to achieve this tuning from a limited number of numerical evaluations. The methodology is then extended so as to provide a robust tuning in the worst-case sense