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2026

Leach, Thomas and Nicolson, Ewan and Watson, Robert and Loukas, Charalampos and Lines, David and Pierce, S. Gareth and Macleod, Charles N. (2026) Towards a calibration methodology for an in-series phased array ultrasonic inspection of weld cladding at elevated temperatures. NDT and E International, 161. 103699. ISSN 0963-8695

Leach, Thomas and Nicolson, Ewan and Watson, Robert and Loukas, Charalampos and Lines, David and Pierce, S. Gareth and Macleod, Charles N. (2026) Adaptive compensation for in-process ultrasonic cladding inspection. NDT and E International, 158. 103571. ISSN 0963-8695

2025

Watson, Robert and Zhao, Taiyi and Zhang, Dayi and Dobie, Gordon and MacLeod, Charles Norman and Pierce, S. Gareth (2025) A fly-crawl-fly UAV for full-circumference inspection of non-magnetic pipes via thrust adhesion. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 22. 24278 - 24293. ISSN 1545-5955

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

2022

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

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 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

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