Ground Tactical Vehicle Prognostics and Health Management

This proposal aims to develop a comprehensive, dynamic, web-based Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) framework for data mining, diagnostics, prognostics and maintenance trends. This framework will translate the data into information and will integrate and combine information from multiple models and model types (e.g., physics-based, probability-based, reliability-based, and data-driven) to exploit the specific advantages of each type. The proposed innovative idea for achieving this integrated system is to develop a comprehensive web-based application that interfaces with the vehicle sensor network (Embedded Platform Logistics System) and United States Marine Corps"various data management systems to provide near real-time life monitoring of the vehicle components. State-of-the-art models for data preprocessing, health assessment and diagnostics, reasoning, prognostics and maintenance trends with application to the ground tactical vehicles will be reviewed. An architecture for a prototype user-friendly web application that incorporates all the toolboxes will be developed.