The Phantom Works' role at The Boeing Company is to facilitate the development and transition of emerging technologies into Boeing products to provide a competitive advantage. 12 Phantom Works is developing a Health Management Engineering Environment (HMEE) to foster and transition health management technology from industry, academia and government technology base to Boeing Products. The HMEE consists of a:• Program Analysis and Modeling Environment, • Development Environment and an • Operations Environment.The Program Analysis and Modeling Environment provides the processes and tools to do performance/cost driver analysis, root cause analysis, solution formulation, and cost/benefit trade studies including fleet simulation modeling. The Development Environment provides the design processes and synthesis tools required to develop solutions.The Operations Environment provides the processes and tools to integrate, test and mature the hardware and software elements of the health management solution. Major elements of the HMEE are an open software reference architecture, access to hardware laboratories to characterize degraded components/ subsystems, a data repository to store and access laboratory and field data, and hardware and software to support end to end technology demonstrations. It will support progressive levels of integration and demonstration from a single technology on a PC to the integration of this technology into a complete IVHM system with hardware in the loop as needed to provide vehicle data and address integration into vehicle avionics or a ground support system. Significant elements of the HMEE are in place with additional expansion and integration ongoing. The Boeing Phantom Works IVHM team is acquiring hardware, tools and algorithms from a number of suppliers to create a pool of resources for system level, end to end demonstrations of IVHM applications and development tools.
As the cost and complexity of components and systems increases, more reliance is placed on IVHM systems to extend functional life and to allow repairs to maximize affordability.Successful deployment of Integrated Vehicle Health Management capabilities depends on a sound business case.From the Boeing viewpoint as a systems integrator, a major deployment obstacle is the integration of health technology into the platform avionics. Deploying effective, affordable and supportable health management systems for new or legacy aircraft must leverage the system and subsystem suppliers as well as the systems integrator.To better facilitate this integration, Boeing's Phantom Works is defining the requirements and architecture to embed 'health ready' systems and subsystems in new and legacy products. The term health ready implies an involvement and contribution by the suppliers and partners to design and build in the features needed at the system or subsystem level to achieve an overall cost effective Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM) solution.This paper addresses the issues related to embedding and enabling IVHM within subsystem/system and within the overall platform avionics architecture. This includes the life cycle support of the IVHM system as well as the initial implementation. This paper describes an environment to achieve these goals and its use as a resource for Boeing and its suppliers in defining the requirements and architecture for embedding health ready systems/ subsystems in new and legacy products.
The time and cost associated with the development and certification of flight-critical software bled air vehicles. This upward trend is expected to continue as future vehicles will be increasingly autonomous and intelligent. Affordable, efficient processes and tools are needed to control development costs and schedule, as well as to ensure the safety of these vehicles. This paper presents the results of a U. S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) sponsored project on the development of validation and verification (V&V) technologies for flightcritical software. The purpose of the project is to improve the affordability and safety for software V&V, specifically, for adaptive and/or mixed-criticality software.
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