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Distributed Rocket Engine Testing Health Monitoring System

Award Information
Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Branch: N/A
Contract: NNX09CF48P
Agency Tracking Number: 085376
Amount: $99,988.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 2009
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
888 Easy Street
Simi Valley, CA 93065
United States
DUNS: 611466855
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Tasso Politopoulos
 Principal Investigator
 (805) 582-0582
 tpolito@americangnc.com
Business Contact
 Lina Greenberg
Title: Business Official
Phone: (805) 582-0582
Email: lgreenberg@americangnc.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

The on-ground and Distributed Rocket Engine Testing Health Monitoring System (DiRETHMS) provides a system architecture and software tools for performing diagnostics and prognostics for supporting NASA's Integrated System Health Management (ISHM) capability for rocket engine testing and ground operations. DiRETHMS architecture consists of a hierarchical, modular, scalable, and flexible system structure for performing ISHM. A core version of the system will be demonstrated during the Phase I effort by performing diagnostics of auxiliary components in rocket engines. The building blocks of the DiRETHMS are: (a) Advanced Embedded Smart Sensors (AESS); (b) Health Monitoring Nodes (HMN), (c) Health Manager Unit (HMaU), and (d) Application Server with Man Machine Interface Man Machine Interface (AS-MMI). DiRETHMS architecture will provide a logic organization for embedding diagnostics at the following levels: (1) smart sensors based on UNCU; ( (3) Robust monitoring/diagnosis subsystem; and (4) system level Prognosis. The significant innovations of this project are: (1) Capability to provide the user with an integrated awareness about the condition of every element in the system, (2) Very flexible architecture of smart sensors that comply with state of the art standards for easy integration and customization, (3) System configuration for support root-cause analysis, and (4) Object-Oriented Bayesian Network for Uncertain Inference.

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