Simmonds Precision Products, Inc.

Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation

Rockwell Collins, Inc.

Bernard Dion

Joseph V Mantese

Christopher McAuliffe

Thomas M Zywiak

Radoslaw Romuald Zakrzewski

Fanping Sun

Paul M D'Orlando

William R Fiske

Meade G Ferrigan

Rosanna Catricala Glynn

Rosanna C Glynn

Paul D'orlando

Christopher Mcauliffe

Peter J Carini

Brian R Shea

Jaclyn A Hoke

Jeffrey James Nieter

Matthew Michael Lorch

Angela N Dunlay

Subhashish Chakravarty

Peter Zywiak

Eric DeWind

Richard Joseph Sopko

Mead G Ferrigan

Paul D'ORLANDO

A system and method for automation of flight functions across an aircraft cockpit provides an open systems architecture to meet next generation mission capabilities for increased aircrew effectiveness. A mission reasoner (MR) receives inputs from a vehicle health system, mission phase analysis, and external assets (wingmen) to build a decision network based on a knowledge database providing a decision aid to automate flight functions across the cockpit. The MR reduces crew workload by providing an automated decision aid and increased situational awareness of own ship aircraft and cooperating nearby vehicle health status relating to a phase of mission success. The MR provides predictive decisions and alternative actions to complete one or more desired mission objectives and determines predictive maintenance and future failures to optimize condition-based maintenance and reduce cost.

Mission reasoner system and method

A method of bearing fault detection including measuring a signal of torsional energy transfer from a rotating device to a non-rotating device at a distance away from the rotating device, calculating a health status of the rotating device based on a comparison of the measured signal to a baseline signal, and calculating a remaining useful life of the rotating device.

System and method for health monitoring of a bearing system

A method is provided for sensing proximity of a target. The method includes sensing inductance associated with a magnetic field, wherein the inductance is affected by the target when the target is proximate the magnetic field. The method further includes providing the sensed inductance for processing. The processing includes determining an inductance value from at least the sensed inductance and estimating a parameter of a gap between a location of sensing the inductance and the target as a function of the inductance value and application of a nonlinear model of a relationship between the gap and inductance.

Estimation of gap between a proximity sensor and target

A method of monitoring an air cycle machine including driving a rotary shaft of an air cycle machine, disconnecting a driving source to allow the rotary shaft to slow the rotary shaft, and monitoring a shutdown cycle of the rotary shaft.

Method of monitoring a shutdown cycle of an air cycle machine of an aircraft

A method includes receiving a sampled input, the sampled input being a result of a detection device sensing a plurality of environmental conditions by an air cycle machine; processing the sampled input to detect whether the plurality of environmental conditions includes a deviation from an expected operation of the air cycle machine; and generating a notification output in response to the plurality of environmental conditions including the deviation from the expected operation of the air cycle machine.

Health and usage management of an environmental control system

A method includes receiving, by a first wireless device integrated into a management facility from a second wireless device integrated into a detection device, environmental conditions produced by a structure and detected by the detection device attached to the structure; and processing, by the management facility, the environmental conditions to detect a deviation from an expected operation of the structure.

Wireless health and usage management of an environmental control system

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Bernard Dion