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Anomaly Detection for Next-Generation Space Launch Ground OperationsNASA is developing new capabilities that will enable future human exploration missions while reducing mission risk and cost. The Fault Detection, Isolation, and Recovery (FDIR) project aims to demonstrate the utility of integrated vehicle health management (IVHM) tools in the domain of ground support equipment (GSE) to be used for the next generation launch vehicles. In addition to demonstrating the utility of IVHM tools for GSE, FDIR aims to mature promising tools for use on future missions and document the level of effort - and hence cost - required to implement an application with each selected tool. One of the FDIR capabilities is anomaly detection, i.e., detecting off-nominal behavior. The tool we selected for this task uses a data-driven approach. Unlike rule-based and model-based systems that require manual extraction of system knowledge, data-driven systems take a radically different approach to reasoning. At the basic level, they start with data that represent nominal functioning of the system and automatically learn expected system behavior. The behavior is encoded in a knowledge base that represents "in-family" system operations. During real-time system monitoring or during post-flight analysis, incoming data is compared to that nominal system operating behavior knowledge base; a distance representing deviation from nominal is computed, providing a measure of how far "out of family" current behavior is. We describe the selected tool for FDIR anomaly detection - Inductive Monitoring System (IMS), how it fits into the FDIR architecture, the operations concept for the GSE anomaly monitoring, and some preliminary results of applying IMS to a Space Shuttle GSE anomaly.
Document ID
20100027325
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Spirkovska, Lilly
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Iverson, David L.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Hall, David R.
(Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc. (SGT, Inc.) Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Taylor, William M.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Patterson-Hine, Ann
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Brown, Barbara
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Ferrell, Bob A.
(NASA Kennedy Space Center Cocoa Beach, FL, United States)
Waterman, Robert D.
(NASA Kennedy Space Center Cocoa Beach, FL, United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
April 25, 2010
Subject Category
Launch Vehicles And Launch Operations
Report/Patent Number
ARC-E-DAA-TN1294
Meeting Information
Meeting: SpaceOps 2010 Conference
Location: Huntsville, AL
Country: United States
Start Date: April 25, 2010
End Date: April 30, 2010
Sponsors: American Inst. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNA08CG83C
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
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