The DoD has various vehicle platforms powered by high performance gas turbine engines that would benefit greatly from predictive health management technologies that can detect, isolate and assess remaining useful life of critical line replaceable units (LRUs) or subsystems. In order to meet these needs for next generation engines, dedicated prognostic algorithms must be developed that are capable of operating in an autonomous and real-time engine health management system software architecture that is distributed in nature. This envisioned prognostic and health management system should allow engine-level reasoners to have visibility and insight into the results of local diagnostic and prognostic technologies implemented down at the LRU and subsystem levels. To accomplish this effectively requires an integrated suite of prognostic technologies that can be applied to critical engine systems and can capture fault/failure mode propagation and interactions that occur in these systems, all the way up through the engine and eventually vehicle level. In the paper, the authors will present a generic set of selected prognostic algorithm approaches that can be applied to gas turbine engines, as well as provide an overview of the required reasoning architecture needed to integrate the prognostic information across the engine.
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