An architecture to implement Integrated Vehicle Health Management systems

Abstract

Modern aircraft benefit from having health management functions integrated with other onboard and offboard systems. Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM) systems provide a reduction in the amount of data traffic required between systems, more accurate diagnostic capability, addition of a prognostic capability, and lower support costs. A flexible and extensible architecture that directly supports the implementation of IVHM systems is presented. This architecture embodies industry standardization concepts, and has been used as a flexible demonstration platform for several IVHM applications.