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2025

Shi, Yingjie and Jin, Xiaoming and Jiang, Jiahong and Tian, Shihui and Lei, Tairan and Tabatabaeipour, Morteza and Zhang, Dayi and Xu, Ke (2025) Non-contact and non-invasive water level measurement outside metal pipes with electromagnetic acoustic resonance. Measurement, 239. 115451. ISSN 1873-412X

2024

Zhao, Taiyi and Watson, Robert and Zhang, Dayi and McMillan, Ross and Galbraith, Walter and MacLeod, Charles and Mohseni, Ehsan and Dobie, Gordon (2024) A pulsed eddy current sensor for UAV deployed pipe thickness measurement. IEEE Sensors Journal, 24 (20). pp. 33326-33335. ISSN 1530-437X

Zhao, Taiyi and Zhang, Dayi and Watson, Robert and Jackson, William and MacLeod, Charles Norman and Mohseni, Ehsan and Dobie, Gordon (2024) Evaluation of pulse eddy current for autonomous airborne inspections. IEEE Sensors Letters, 8 (8). pp. 1-4. 6009304. ISSN 2475-1472

Tabatabaeipour, Morteza and Jackson, William and Gilmour, Adam and Zhang, Dayi and Poole, Alastair and Tzaferis, Konstantinos and Dobie, Gordon and Gachagan, Anthony (2024) Mitigating RGB-D camera errors for robust ultrasonic inspections using a force-torque sensor. Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation. ISSN 1058-9759

Zhang, Dayi and Jackson, William and Dobie, Gordon and MacLeod, Charles and Gachagan, Anthony (2024) Innovative non-invasive ultrasound method for whisky cask liquid level measurement. Measurement, 228. 114345. ISSN 1873-412X

2023

Gilmour, Adam and Tabatabaeipour, Morteza and McMillan, Ross and Tzaferis, Konstantinos and Hampson, Rory and Jackson, William and Zhang, Dayi and Lawley, Alistair and Mohamed, Aasim and MacLeod, Charles and Gachagan, Anthony and Pierce, Stephen G and Dobie, Gordon; Farhangdoust, Saman and Guemes, Alfredo and Chang, Fu-Kuo, eds. (2023) Robotic ultrasonic inspection of large and complex structural assets. In: Structural Health Monitoring 2023. Destech Publications, USA, pp. 2143-2150. ISBN 9781605956930

Zhang, Dayi and Subramanian, Senthilkumar and Hampson, Rory and Jackson, William and Kontis, Konstantinos and Dobie, Gordon and MacLeod, Charles (2023) Automotive aerodynamics sensing using low-profile pressure sensor strip. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 72. pp. 1-9. 2005809. ISSN 0018-9456

Gilmour, Adam and Jackson, William and Zhang, Dayi and Dobie, Gordon and MacLeod, Charles N. and Karkera, Benjamin and Barber, Thomas (2023) Robotic positioning for quality assurance of feature-sparse components using a depth-sensing camera. IEEE Sensors Journal, 23 (9). pp. 10032-10040. ISSN 1530-437X

McMillan, Ross and Hampson, Rory and Tabatabaeipour, Morteza and Jackson, William and Zhang, Dayi and Tzaferis, Konstantinos and Dobie, Gordon (2023) Design and manufacture of an optimised side-shifted PPM 2 EMAT array for use in mobile robotic localisation. Sensors, 23 (4). 2012. ISSN 1424-8220

2022

Hampson, Rory and Zhang, Dayi and Gachagan, Anthony and Dobie, Gordon (2022) Modelling and characterisation ultrasonic phased array transducers for pipe inspections. International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping, 200. 104808. ISSN 0308-0161

Watson, Robert and Kamel, Mina and Zhang, Dayi and Dobie, Gordon and MacLeod, Charles and Pierce, S. Gareth and Nieto, Juan (2022) Dry coupled ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation using an over-actuated unmanned aerial vehicle. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 19 (4). pp. 2874-2889. ISSN 1545-5955

Zhang, Dayi and Jackson, William and Dobie, Gordon and West, Graeme and MacLeod, Charles Norman (2022) Structure-from-motion based image unwrapping and stitching for small bore pipe inspections. Computers in Industry, 139. 103664. ISSN 0166-3615

Jackson, William and Zhang, Dayi and McMillan, Ross and Tabatabaeipour, Morteza and Hampson, Rory and Gilmour, Adam and MacLeod, Charles Norman and Dobie, Gordon (2022) Magnetic inspection platform for teleoperated remote inspections of complex geometry. In: 49th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation (QNDE 2022), 2022-07-25 - 2022-07-27, San Diego, CA.

Watson, Robert and Zhao, Taiyi and Zhang, Dayi and Kamel, Mina and MacLeod, Charles and Dobie, Gordon and Bolton, Gary and Joly, Antoine and Pierce, S. Gareth and Nieto, Juan; Saman, Farhangdoust and Guemes, Alfredo and Chang, Fu-Kuo, eds. (2022) Techniques for contact-based structural health monitoring with multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring. Destech Publications, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, pp. 21-28. ISBN 9781605956879

Zhang, Dayi and Cao, Jianlin and Dobie, Gordon and MacLeod, Charles Norman (2022) A framework of using customized LIDAR to localize robot for nuclear reactor inspections. IEEE Sensors Journal, 22 (6). pp. 5352-5359. ISSN 1530-437X

Zhang, Dayi and Watson, Robert and MacLeod, Charles and Dobie, Gordon and Galbraith, Walter and Pierce, Gareth (2022) Implementation and evaluation of an autonomous airborne ultrasound inspection system. Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation, 37 (1). pp. 1-21. ISSN 1058-9759

2021

Subramanian, Senthilkumar and Hampson, Rory and Zhang, Dayi and Kontis, Konstantinos and Dobie, Gordon and MacLeod, Charles Norman and Son, Jae; (2021) Characterization of a low profile, rapidly deployable, MEMS pressure sensor array for aerodynamic applications. In: AIAA SCITECH Forum 2022. AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum . American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA, USA.

Hosseinzadeh, Salaheddin and Jackson, William and Zhang, Dayi and McDonald, Liam and Dobie, Gordon and West, Graeme and MacLeod, Charles Norman (2021) A novel centralization method for pipe image stitching. IEEE Sensors Journal, 21 (10). pp. 11889-11898. ISSN 1530-437X

Watson, Robert J. and Pierce, S. Gareth and Kamel, Mina and Zhang, Dayi and MacLeod, Charles N. and Dobie, Gordon and Bolton, Gary and Dawood, Tariq and Nieto, Juan; Rizzo, Piervincenzo and Milazzo, Alberto, eds. (2021) Deployment of contact-based ultrasonic thickness measurements using over-actuated UAVs. In: European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring. EWSHM 2020. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering . Springer International Publishing AG, ITA, pp. 683-694. ISBN 978-3-030-64594-6

2020

Zhang, Dayi and Watson, Robert and Cao, Jianlin and Zhao, Taiyi and Dobie, Gordon and MacLeod, Charles and Pierce, Gareth (2020) Dry-coupled airborne ultrasonic inspection using coded excitation. In: 2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium: IEEE UFFC, 2020-09-06 - 2020-09-11.

Zhang, Dayi and Watson, Robert and Dobie, Gordon and MacLeod, Charles and Khan, Aamir and Pierce, Gareth (2020) Quantifying impacts on remote photogrammetric inspection using unmanned aerial vehicles. Engineering Structures, 209. 109940. ISSN 0141-0296

2019

Zhang, Dayi and Watson, Robert and Dobie, Gordon and MacLeod, Charles and Lines, David and Galbraith, Walter and Mineo, Carmelo and Pierce, Gareth (2019) Evaluation of coded excitations for autonomous airborne ultrasonic inspection. In: 2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, 2019-10-06 - 2019-10-09, SECC.

2018

Zhang, Dayi and Watson, Robert and Dobie, Gordon and MacLeod, Charles Norman and Pierce, Gareth; (2018) Autonomous ultrasonic inspection using unmanned aerial vehicle. In: 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS). IEEE, JPN. ISBN 9781538634257

2017

Zhang, D. and Burnham, K. and Mcdonald, L. and Macleod, C. and Dobie, G. and Summan, R. and Pierce, G. (2017) Remote inspection of wind turbine blades using UAV with photogrammetry payload. In: 56th Annual British Conference of Non-Destructive Testing - NDT 2017, 2017-09-04 - 2017-09-07.