Robust Fault Management Tool Suite to Investigate, Develop, and Support FM Approaches and Solutions

In Phase, Ridgetop Group, Inc., Tucson, Arizona, shall complete the design and development of a rapid prototype implementation of a Robust Fault Management (FM) tool suite comprising a system of frameworks that enable NASA to investigate, develop, and support the Verification and Validation (V&V) of FM approaches and solutions. The tool suite fills a critical gap in fault classification and management and addresses the following NASA FM needs: 1. Fault management operations and approaches to realize greater system autonomy; FM "in-the-loop," including algorithms, computing, and state estimation and/or classification; and fault detection and diagnosis, prognosis, fault recovery, and mitigation of faults; 2. Fault management design and implementation tools: formalize and optimize onboard FM using model-based system engineering (MBSE) using improved modeling and approaches; and model and define complex systems of systems of data nodes exhibiting faults, failures, FM-related events, and changes in status of complex systems. Significant Phase I activities include completing the rapid prototyping of the following frameworks: (1) System Definition; (2) Input Definition; (3) Output Data, (4) Build System, (5) Load System, (6) Run System. Phase I shall also include the following: (1) prototype demonstration, (2) interim & final proposal for Phase II and III, (3) interim and final Phase I report(s), and (3) any other deliverables per the contract. Significant functionality includes the following: (1) support distributed data; (2) FM-related events and activities such online/offline; active/standby; maintenance schedule, begin, complete; (3) multiple types of data (existing/historical, simulated, near-real time)from existing files, simulated data, and simulated data: and (4) FM alerts and actions.