Scenario-Based Specification and Evaluation of Architectures for Health Monitoring of Aerospace Structures

摘要

Health and Usage Monitoring Systems(HUMS) have been an area of increased research in the recent times due to two main reasons: (a) increase in the occurrences of accidents in the aerospace, and (b) stricter FAA regulations on aircrafts maintenance. There are several problems associated with the maintenance of aircrafls that the HUMS systems can solve through the use of several monitoring technologies. Currently, a variety of maintenance programs are institutionalized by the aircraft carriers that mostly involve visual inspections and hence are m-prone. Automatic, continuous health monitoring systems could siqnify the maintenance tasks as well as improve the efficiency of the operation, thereby enhancing the safety of air travel and also lowering the total lifecycle costs of aircrafts.