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Authors:
Rajkumar Choudhary
Suresh Perinpanayagam
Eugene Butans
Keywords: Distributed systems; IVHM; systems integration; architecture; OSA-CBM; middleware
Abstract:
According to Aircraft Crashes Record Office (ACRO), total number of accidents occurred from 1999-2013 were 2556 in worldwide, were primarily due to loss-of-control in flight, controlled flight into terrain, and system/component failure. These accidents caused big capital loss for aircraft industry and 18987 deaths. Aircraft manufacturers are investing a huge amount of money to minimize these accidents by implementing new technologies, e.g., IVHM (Integrated Vehicle Health Management) in legacy and new generation aircraft. In aircraft industry, maintenance costs represent the third largest expense item after labor and fuel costs for both regional and national carriers with maintenance costs commonly comprising 15-18% of the operational expenses. By implementing IVHM technologies not only the maintenance costs can be reduced, also the fatality rate can be minimized. IVHM can provide more specific scheduled maintenance, onboard diagnostics and prognostics services. The aim of this paper is to investigate, about finding network architecture suitable for IVHM integration in vehicles (e.g., aircraft) that should be able to support interoperability between multiple vendors’ IVHM components and insertion of new IVHM capabilities using simulation and optimization technique. To develop IVHM network architecture, essential data such as bandwidth, data rate, throughput, latency and performance in communication network will be collected using various enabling technologies (i.e., middleware) and OSA-CBM (Open System Architecture for Condition Based Monitoring) data model. Using simulation tools, e.g., OPNET (Optimized Network Engineering Tools), these sample data will be tested at large scale environment (e.g., aircraft or train). After simulation, multi-objective optimization will be used in tradeoff analysis that aims to find cost effective and fully functional IVHM network architecture.
Pages: 205 to 210
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015
Publication date: April 19, 2015
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4413
ISBN: 978-1-61208-398-8
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Dates: from April 19, 2015 to April 24, 2015