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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2007
Marc R. Matsen, Seattle, WA (US);
Gary E. Georgeson, Federal Way, WA (US);
Everett Westerman, Auburn, WA (US);
Kenneth Porad, Tacoma, WA (US);
Arun Ayyagari, Seattle, WA (US);
Kevin Ung, Bellevue, WA (US);
Craig Farris Battles, Seattle, WA (US);
David Blackwell, Seattle, WA (US);
Marc R. Matsen, Seattle, WA (US);
Gary E. Georgeson, Federal Way, WA (US);
Everett Westerman, Auburn, WA (US);
Kenneth Porad, Tacoma, WA (US);
Arun Ayyagari, Seattle, WA (US);
Kevin Ung, Bellevue, WA (US);
Craig Farris Battles, Seattle, WA (US);
David Blackwell, Seattle, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for structural and component health monitoring are provided. A system includes a plurality of sensor systems positioned about an object to be monitored and a processing system communicatively coupled to at least one of said plurality of sensor systems wherein the processing system includes an ontology and reasoning module configured to model the object to be monitored, reason about the received sensor data associated with the object to be monitored and reason about the relationships between the received sensor data to fuse the data into contextual information for the overall object to be monitored and a contextual analyzer configured to transmit the received sensor data to said ontology and reasoning module and to store the information into a contextual information database.