Phong Ba Dao, dr hab. inż., prof. AGH
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Phong Ba Dao, PhD, DSc, Professor of AGH University of Science and Technology Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Office: room 409, building D1 ORCID |
Education and qualifications
Eng. – Cybernetics, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, 2001
M.Sc. – Instrumentation and Control, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, 2004
Ph.D. – Intelligent Control and Mechatronics, University of Twente, 2011
D.Sc. (Habilitation) – Mechanical Engineering, AGH University of Science and Technology, 2020
Awards
- Team Award of the AGH Rector (3rd degree) for scientific achievements, 2018
- Individual Award of the AGH Rector (2nd degree) for scientific achievements, 2019
- Individual Award of the AGH Rector (2nd degree) for scientific achievements, 2021
- 1st degree Individual Award of the AGH Rector for scientific achievements for the best publishing employees (Top 10%) in the discipline of Mechanical Engineering, 2022
- 1st degree Individual Award of the AGH Rector for scientific achievements for the best publishing employees (Top 10%) in the discipline of Mechanical Engineering, 2023
Research interests
- Structural health monitoring (SHM)
- Non-destructive testing (NDT)
- Condition monitoring and fault diagnosis
- Statistical time series methods for SHM & NDT
- Advanced signal/data processing
- Intelligent control
- Agent-based control
- Mechatronics
Granted patents
- W.J. Staszewski, P.B. Dao, and K. Zolna, “A method and a system for structural health monitoring,” European Patent Office, patent number: EP 3040700 B1, date of filing application: 29.12.2014, date of publication and mention of the grant of the patent: 24.04.2019, published in Bulletin 2019/17. [B1 patent specification]
Selected publications (in JCR journals with impact factor)
- P.B. Dao, “On cointegration analysis for condition monitoring and fault detection of wind turbines using SCADA data,” Energies, vol. 16, no. 5, 2352, 2023. [DOI] (Q1; 2021 Impact Factor: 3.252; CiteScore2021: 5.0)
- P.B. Dao and W.J. Staszewski, “Cointegration and how it works for structural health monitoring,” Measurement, vol. 209, 112503, 2023. [DOI] (Q1; 2021 Impact Factor: 5.131; CiteScore2021: 7.8)
- P.B. Dao, “On Wilcoxon rank sum test for condition monitoring and fault detection of wind turbines,” Applied Energy, vol. 318, 119209, 2022. [DOI] (Q1; 2021 Impact Factor: 11.446; CiteScore2021: 20.4)
- P.B. Dao, “Condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of wind turbines based on structural break detection in SCADA data,” Renewable Energy, vol. 185, pp. 641–654, 2022. [DOI] (Q1; 2021 Impact Factor: 8.634; CiteScore2021: 13.6)
- P.B. Dao and W.J. Staszewski, “Lamb wave based structural damage detection using stationarity tests,” Materials, vol. 14, no. 22, 6823, 2021. [DOI] (Q2; 2021 Impact Factor: 3.748)
- P.B. Dao, “A CUSUM-based approach for condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of wind turbines,” Energies, vol. 14, no. 11, 3236, 2021. [DOI] (Q1; 2021 Impact Factor: 3.252)
- P.B. Dao, “OROMACS: A design framework for multi-agent control system,” International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 1907–1919, 2021. [DOI] (Q1; 2021 Impact Factor: 2.964; CiteScore2021: 5.7)
- P.B. Dao, “Learning feedforward control using multiagent control approach for motion control systems,” Energies, vol. 14, no. 2, 420, 2021. [DOI] (Q1; 2021 Impact Factor: 3.252)
- P.B. Dao, W.J. Staszewski, T. Barszcz, and T. Uhl, “Condition monitoring and fault detection in wind turbines based on cointegration analysis of SCADA data,” Renewable Energy, vol. 116, part B, pp. 107–122, 2018. [DOI] (Q1; 2018 Impact Factor: 5.439; CiteScore2018: 9.9)
- P.B. Dao, A. Klepka, Ł. Pieczonka, F. Aymerich, and W.J. Staszewski, “Impact damage detection in smart composites using nonlinear acoustics – cointegration analysis for removal of undesired load effect,” Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 26, no. 3, 035012, 2017. [DOI] (Q1; 2017 Impact Factor: 2.963)
- P.B. Dao, W.J. Staszewski, and A. Klepka, “Stationarity-based approach for the selection of lag length in cointegration analysis used for structural damage detection,” Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 138–153, 2017. [DOI] (Q1; 2017 Impact Factor: 5.475)
- K. Zolna, P.B. Dao, W.J. Staszewski, and T. Barszcz, “Towards homoscedastic nonlinear cointegration for structural health monitoring,” Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, vol. 75, pp. 94–108, 2016. [DOI] (Q1; 2016 Impact Factor: 4.116)
- K. Zolna, P.B. Dao, W.J. Staszewski, and T. Barszcz, “Nonlinear cointegration approach for condition monitoring of wind turbines,” Mathematical Problems in Engineering, vol. 2015, Article ID 978156, 11 pages, 2015. [DOI] (Q2; 2015 Impact Factor: 0.644)
- P.B. Dao and W.J. Staszewski, “Lamb wave based structural damage detection using cointegration and fractal signal processing,” Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, vol. 49, no. 1–2, pp. 285–301, 2014. [DOI] (Q1; 2014 Impact Factor: 2.256)
- P.B. Dao and W.J. Staszewski, “Data normalisation for Lamb wave–based damage detection using cointegration: A case study with single- and multiple-temperature trends,” Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, vol. 25, no. 7, pp. 845–857, 2014. [DOI] (Q1; 2014 Impact Factor: 2.072)
- P.B. Dao and W.J. Staszewski, “Cointegration approach for temperature effect compensation in Lamb wave based damage detection,” Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 22, no. 9, 095002, 2013. [DOI] (Q1; 2013 Impact Factor: 2.449)
Theses / Monographs
- P.B. Dao, Cointegration-Based Approach for Structural Health Monitoring: Theory and Applications, monograph nr. 339, AGH University of Science and Technology Publishing House, Kraków, 2018, 124 pages, ISBN 978-83-66016-44-6. (D.Sc. / Habilitation Monograph) [table of contents]
- P.B. Dao, Safe-Guarded Multi-Agent Control for Mechatronic Systems: Implementation Framework and Design Patterns, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, 2011, 195 pages, ISBN 978-90-365-3148-1. [full text]
Editorial activities
- Topic Editor of MDPI’s Research Topic entitled “Structural Health Monitoring and Non-Destructive Testing for Large-Scale Structures”
- Guest Editor of the Special Issue on “Advanced Signal/Data Processing for Structural Health Monitoring”
Teaching
- Control Theory (lecture classes, laboratory and exercise classes) for the 3rd-year students (BSc programme in Mechatronics) Syllabus
- Mechatronic System Identification (laboratory and project classes) for the 4th-year students (MSc programme in Mechatronic Design)
- Mechatronic Systems (project classes) for the 5th-year students (MSc programme in Mechatronic Design)