CFP

NASA Funding Opportunity in Integrated Vehicle Health Management and Data Mining

Expected annual program budget for new awards FY09: $2.6M FY10: $2.1M FY11: $2.0M

The goal of the Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM) project is to develop validated tools, technologies, and techniques for automated detection, diagnosis and prognosis to enable mitigation of adverse events during flight. Adverse events include those that arise from system, subsystem, or component faults or failures due to damage, degradation, or environmental hazards that occur during flight. The project offers a research program that addresses both the hardware and the software aspects of the aircraft. These new IVHM capabilities will enable rapid detection and diagnosis of adverse events and estimation of severity and remaining useful life (RUL) with confidence bounds for the affected system(s). Maintenance workers, flight crew, adaptive configuration systems and other control systems can use this information to enhance the safety profile of the aircraft.

Developing real-time automated reasoning and decision making tools and techniques to integrate messages from the health management systems of individual aircraft and combining them with results from analysis of fleet-wide vehicle health assessments is also a critical challenge for the IVHM project. Therefore, fundamental research will develop probabilistic models of potential fault and failure modes and data mining algorithms to analyze large heterogeneous data sources from current aircraft fleets to develop static and dynamic models of potential system failures. This capability will enable aircraft-wide and system-wide study and will be used to continue development of tools and technologies in support of the Aviation Safety and Information Analysis and Sharing (ASIAS) collaboration with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Although this project is primarily focused on the vehicle, it also addresses system-level concerns with the national air transportation system.

Due date for Notice of Intent: 4/30/08
Due date for proposals: 5/30/08

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NASA point of contact concerning this program
email: roa-ivhm@nx.arc.nasa.gov