Projects

System Architecture for NASA Integrated Vehicle Health Management

MitekAn's PI, Dr. Gorinevsky, leads NASA Aviation Safety Program contract  in developing "Systems Architecture for Integration of Vehicle Health Management Research". This is a Level 4 integrative effort within  NASA IVHM Project that is closely connected to the program guidance, planning, and  work of its advisory committees.

The goal of NASA IVHM Architecture project is to formulate an open architecture supporting integration and test of NASA-funded IVHM research. NASA ARMD IVHM Project sponsors about a hundred diverse individual project efforts. NASA's vision is that all these developments will contribute and could be integrated into he IVHM system of the next generation aircraft.  NASA will use the IVHM architecture for establishing equirements to the IVHM component projects and integrating research and development results of these projects. MitekAn collaborates with Boeing, Honeywell, and GE Aviation in this NASA project. MitekAn's PI has a key role in the IVHM advisory groups including members of these and other leading industrial companies, NASA, and Air Force and guiding the architecture development.

In Year I of the project, architecture documentation was developed using DODAF (DoD Architecture Framework). For more detail, see NASA IVHM Architecture web page. Year II work is on IVHM Integration Testbed as software and computing system hardware platform for integrating individual IVHM developments, prototyping and testing integrated demonstration systems. The IVHM Integration Testbed implementation is based on Sun Microsystems’ open source OpenESB software including GlassFish application server, database, web services, Matlab integration, workflow engine, and NetBeans. The intent is to make the IVHM Integration Testbed available to the IVHM community as open source software.