Rocket engine health monitoring and control - Some connections and their implications

SSME health-monitoring and health-managing subsystems are presently discussed with a view to the ways in which their design objectives influence each other. Analytical results based on the application of system-theoretic concepts to the analysis of a general health monitoring/control architecture are presented; an effort is made to illuminate and quantify the tradeoffs in question. Attention is given to SSME simulation results that illustrate the conceptual framework employed.