Towards Agent-based Test Support Systems: An Unsupervised Environment Design Approach

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Autores principales: Ogbodo, Collins O., Rogers, Timothy J., Borgo, Mattia Dal, Wagg, David J.
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Publicado: 2025
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author Ogbodo, Collins O.
Rogers, Timothy J.
Borgo, Mattia Dal
Wagg, David J.
author_facet Ogbodo, Collins O.
Rogers, Timothy J.
Borgo, Mattia Dal
Wagg, David J.
contents Modal testing plays a critical role in structural analysis by providing essential insights into dynamic behaviour across a wide range of engineering industries. In practice, designing an effective modal test campaign involves complex experimental planning, comprising a series of interdependent decisions that significantly influence the final test outcome. Traditional approaches to test design are typically static-focusing only on global tests without accounting for evolving test campaign parameters or the impact of such changes on previously established decisions, such as sensor configurations, which have been found to significantly influence test outcomes. These rigid methodologies often compromise test accuracy and adaptability. To address these limitations, this study introduces an agent-based decision support framework for adaptive sensor placement across dynamically changing modal test environments. The framework formulates the problem using an underspecified partially observable Markov decision process, enabling the training of a generalist reinforcement learning agent through a dual-curriculum learning strategy. A detailed case study on a steel cantilever structure demonstrates the efficacy of the proposed method in optimising sensor locations across frequency segments, validating its robustness and real-world applicability in experimental settings.
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spellingShingle Towards Agent-based Test Support Systems: An Unsupervised Environment Design Approach
Ogbodo, Collins O.
Rogers, Timothy J.
Borgo, Mattia Dal
Wagg, David J.
Machine Learning
Modal testing plays a critical role in structural analysis by providing essential insights into dynamic behaviour across a wide range of engineering industries. In practice, designing an effective modal test campaign involves complex experimental planning, comprising a series of interdependent decisions that significantly influence the final test outcome. Traditional approaches to test design are typically static-focusing only on global tests without accounting for evolving test campaign parameters or the impact of such changes on previously established decisions, such as sensor configurations, which have been found to significantly influence test outcomes. These rigid methodologies often compromise test accuracy and adaptability. To address these limitations, this study introduces an agent-based decision support framework for adaptive sensor placement across dynamically changing modal test environments. The framework formulates the problem using an underspecified partially observable Markov decision process, enabling the training of a generalist reinforcement learning agent through a dual-curriculum learning strategy. A detailed case study on a steel cantilever structure demonstrates the efficacy of the proposed method in optimising sensor locations across frequency segments, validating its robustness and real-world applicability in experimental settings.
title Towards Agent-based Test Support Systems: An Unsupervised Environment Design Approach
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14135