Statistical classifiers for structural health monitoring

Multisensor problems are important tasks in the field of structural health monitoring. By means of signals originating from different sensors, we have to make a decision about the test object. We describe a universal, largely problem independent method, which applies statistical classifiers in order to identify objects or assess their state. This work presents the results of a series of studies, which systematically investigated such approaches for a great variety of technical and biological signals. We give an overview on the theoretical background and describe two selected application examples.